num_pages: 200
description: Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in recent young-adult fiction. Yet this bleakness needs not translate into depression and fear for vulnerable adolescents. Westwater reads six young-adult novels through Kristevan theory to find a glimmer of hope amidst our cultural crises.
language: English
title: Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction
titlecomplete: Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction (The University of Alberta Press)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press