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Light and Legacies
An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its
significance in American literature
In Light and Legacies , author Janaka Bowman Lewis
examines Black girlhood in American literature from the
mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black
girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained
underexplored. Through this literary history of \"Black Girl Magic,\"
Lewis offers one of the first studies in this rapidly growing field
of study. Light and Legacies poignantly showcases the
activist dimensions of creative literature through work by women
writers such as Toni Morrison and Toni Cade. As vectors of protest,
these stories reflect historical events while also creating an
enduring space of liberation and expression. The book provides
didactic and reflective portrayals of the Black experience-an
experience that has long been misunderstood. In a work both
enlightening and personal, Lewis brilliantly weaves accounts of her
own journey together with the liberating stories that shaped her
and so many others.
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The double-daring book for girls
\"An all-new double-the-fun, double-the-adventure guidebook of stories, activities, facts, and games for daring girls everywhere\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Beautiful fighting girl
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Sait? Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Sait?, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reality to the fictional spaces she inhabits. As an object of desire for male otaku (obsessive fans of anime and manga), she saturates these worlds with meaning even as her fictional status demands her ceaseless proliferation and reproduction. Rejecting simplistic moralizing, Sait? understands the otaku's ability to eroticize and even fall in love with the beautiful fighting girl not as a sign of immaturity or maladaptation but as a result of a heightened sensitivity to the multiple layers of mediation and fictional context that constitute life in our hypermediated worldùa logical outcome of the media they consume. Featuring extensive interviews with Japanese and American otaku, a comprehensive genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl, and an analysis of the American outsider artist Henry Darger, whose baroque imagination Sait? sees as an important antecedent of otaku culture, Beautiful Fighting Girl was hugely influential when first published in Japan, and it remains a key text in the study of manga, anime, and otaku culture. Now available in English for the first time, this book will spark new debates about the role played by desire in the production and consumption of popular culture.
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Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.
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Reading Like a Girl
By examining the novels of critically and commercially
successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like
You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and
Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl:
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult
Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means
of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural
expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal
relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the
construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American
novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent
women.
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The body image workbook for teens : activities to help girls develop a healthy body image in an image-obsessed world
In The Body Image Workbook for Teens, you'll find practical exercises and tips that address the most common factors that can lead to negative body image, including: comparison, negative self-talk, unrealistic media images, societal and family pressures, perfectionism, toxic friendships, and a fear of disappointing others. You'll also learn powerful coping strategies to deal with the daily, intense pressures of being a teenage girl.
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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship.
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