Monstrous youth : transgressing the boundaries of childhood in the United States /

Monstrous youth : transgressing the boundaries of childhood in the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Austin, Sara, author.
Imprint:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022] ©2022
Description:	x, 180 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Children's literature -- History and criticism. Monsters -- Symbolic aspects. Children -- United States -- Social conditions. Monsters in literature. Monsters in popular culture. Children -- Social conditions. Children's literature. Monsters in literature. Monsters in popular culture. Monsters -- Symbolic aspects. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12775269

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ISBN:	9780814215166 0814215165 9780814258347 0814258344 9780814282120 0814282121
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index.
Summary:	"Uses a range of subjects and disciplines, including queer theory, popular culture, childhood studies, and comics studies to chart the relationship between monstrosity and child/adolescent bodies and identities. Connects monsters and their consumption to changing reflection, interpretation, and shaping of the social discourses of identity within US children's culture"--

Table of Contents:

Enfreakment in 1950s horror comics and teen horrorpics
Images of racial anxiety in 1960s and 1970s picture books
Middle-class innocence, monstrous material culture, and the moral panics of the 1980s
Monstrous families from 1990s series fiction to the Post-Twilight era
Conclusion: How to make a monster (story).