Boys in children's literature and popular culture
Subtitle: masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child
By: Annette Wannamaker
Series: Children's literature and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780415974691
Subjects: Children's stories, American -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Boys in literature; Boys -- Books and reading -- United States; Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
Description: xiii, 181 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the rhetoric of the current "boy crisis"; title: Introduction : beyond stereotypes and role models : the abject and the American boy; title: Me Tarzan, you other : the evolution of an icon; title: Reading in the gaps and lacks : (de)constructing masculinity in Louis Sachar's Holes; title: "The battle of the Bionic Booger Boy," bodily borders, and B.A.D. boys : pleasure and abjection in the Captain Underpants series; title: And Majin Buu said, "I'll eat you up!" : consuming Japanese cultural imports; title: Men in cloaks and high-heeled boots, men wielding pink umbrellas : witchy masculinities in the Harry Potter novels; title: Conclusion : marking masculinity