The Girl in the Text

Description

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality. In literary and transactional texts, girls are presented as heroes who empower themselves and others with lasting effect, as figures of liberating pedagogical practice and educational activism, and as catalysts for discussions of the relationship between desire and ethics. In these varied chapters, a new notion of transnationalism emerges, one rooted not only in the process through which borders between nation-states become more porous, but through which cultural and ethnic imperatives become permeable. Contents Introduction. The Transnational Girl in the Text Chapter 1. Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs Chapter 2. "This is My Story" Chapter 3. The Girl Chapter 4. Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts Chapter 5. Perfect Love in a Better World Chapter 6. Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives Chapter 7. Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr Chapter 8. "Like Alice, I was Brave" Chapter 9. Girl, Interrupted and Continued Chapter 10. Lolita Speaks Chapter 11. Hope Chest Chapter 12. The Girl in the GIF Chapter 13. Girls' Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Texts Chapter 14. Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girls' Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting Index