{"product_id":"9780877458579-disturbing-the-universe","title":"Disturbing the Universe","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePower and Repression in Adolescent Literature\u003cbr\u003eThe author expands the notion of the young adult novel as a coming-of-age story. She chronicles the dynamics of power and repression revealing that characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institution in which adolescents function.\u003cbr\u003eThe Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institutions within which they function, including family, church, government, and school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an outgrowth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of individuals. Drawing on such nineteenth-century precursors as \u003ci\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisturbing the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how important it is to employ poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing adolescent literature, both in critical studies and in the classroom. Among the twentieth-century authors discussed are Blume, Hamilton, Hinton, Le Guin, L'Engle, and Zindel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrites' work has applications for a broad range of readers, including scholars of children's literature and theorists of post-modernity as well as librarians and secondary-school teachers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature\u003c\/i\u003e by Roberta Seelinger Trites is the winner of the 2002 Children's Literature Association's Book Award. The award is given annually in order to promote and recognize outstanding contributions to children's literature, history, scholarship, and criticisim; it is one of the highest academic honors that can accrue to an author of children's literary criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55451758395766,"sku":"9780877458579","price":17.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29540047.jpg?v=1743586652","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780877458579-disturbing-the-universe","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}