Girls Transforming

Girls Transforming

Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s

by Sanna Lehtonen

232 pages· 2013· ISBN 9781476601939
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This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English-language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy

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