Tribunella (English, U. of Southern Mississippi) argues that within 20th century American literature for youth a strikingly recurrent theme involves the child-protagonist's irrevocable loss of a loved object (a friend, a dog named Old Yeller, an ideal, etc.) and subsequent matur…
Coming of age in children's fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The Outsiders, a narrative of psychological pain defies expectations of childhood as a time of innocence and play. In this provocative new …
Introduction : feeding identity, subverting stereotypes : food and consumption in contemporary Asian American bildungsromane -- Consuming Asian American history in Frank Chin's Donald Duk -- To eat, to buy, to be : consumption as identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the…
