in college now, emptying the vast high school when he left, leaving the crowded corridors, the wide classrooms empty, taking the flicker of promise from lunch hours, when she might see him, stripping the crisp, vivid pageant of football to nothing but bands, color, battle, and hundreds of people. Here, as so often in the daydreams, Douglas Eamons was talking to her. She is currently at work on a book-length project that suggests a revised history of young adult literature: one which focuses on the female producers and distributors of the now-neglected Cold War adolescent girl romance novels to show the gendered history of the genre, and to reveal a heretofore hidden battle regarding who has the right-and ability-to define our current concept of young adult literature.
Her research focuses on the intersection of adolescent girl romance novels, Cold War studies, and women’s literary and employment history. Allen is an assistant professor of Children’s Literature at Eastern Michigan University. the recognition of the prom queen as the object of her own desire) create and then mask complex female power struggles within a highly regulated adolescent social hierarchy.Ībout the Author: Amanda K. girls’ collective establishment of a female dominant society, and iv. Abstract: This article examines Mary Stolz’s Cold War adolescent girl romance novels-which I call “female junior novels”-to suggest that the dominant tropes that form the popular romance motifs within these texts (i.
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