Boys in children's literature and popular culture : masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child / Annette Wannamaker.

Author/creator Wannamaker, Annette
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, ©2008.
Descriptionxiii, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesChildren's literature and culture
Children's literature and culture. ^A1008050
Contents Prologue : the rhetoric of the current "boy crisis" -- Introduction : beyond stereotypes and role models : the abject and the American boy -- Me Tarzan, you other : the evolution of an icon -- Reading in the gaps and lacks : (de)constructing masculinity in Louis Sachar's Holes -- "The battle of the Bionic Booger Boy," bodily borders, and B.A.D. boys : pleasure and abjection in the Captain Underpants series -- And Majin Buu said, "I'll eat you up!" : consuming Japanese cultural imports -- Men in cloaks and high-heeled boots, men wielding pink umbrellas : witchy masculinities in the Harry Potter novels -- Conclusion : marking masculinity.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index.
LCCN 2007002634
ISBN9780415974691 (alk. paper)
ISBN0415974690 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS 374.C454 W36 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold