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The Immigrant Girl and the Western Boyfriend : The Romance Plot in Young Adult Novels of Migration
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- Andersson Hval, Ulrika, 1974- (author)
- Högskolan Väst,Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk,BUV
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Stibe, Anna, 1975- (author)
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- European Society for the Study of English, 2016
- 2016
- English.
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In: ESSE messenger. - : European Society for the Study of English. - 2518-3567. ; 25:1, s. 122-132
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Abstract
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- We explore a recurring motif in a number of young adult novels centered around the experiences of immigrant girls and their adjustment to life in a new country. The integration process appears to belinked to the girls’ relationships with boys from the majority culture, making romance a central element of the girls’ development of a new identity and sense of belonging in the new country. We will examine the intersections of gender and integration by focusing on the narrative voices of immigrant girls in three contemporary novels, Sarah Darer Littman’s Life, After (2010), Sarah Crossan’s The Weight of Water(2012), and Terry Farish’s The Good Braider (2012).
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Migration
- immigration
- gender
- young adult fiction
- girls
- Litteraturvetenskap
- Literary studies
- Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap
- Child and Youth studies
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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