Sink or Swim? : Revising Ophelia in contemporary young adult fiction


Autoria(s): Hateley, Erica
Data(s)

2013

Resumo

Shakespeare’s Hamlet has in recent years been used by a number of young adult novels to define and authorise representations of gendered adolescent subjectivity. In so doing, these novels attend not only to Shakespeare’s play but also to other adaptations of the play. For example, the long cultural history of Ophelia being used as a template for depicting adolescent femininity as risky or dangerous is as influential as the play itself in early twenty-first century novels. This paper reads such novels for the ways in which codes of gender and of genre circulate in adolescent fiction when linked explicitly with Shakespearean texts and traditions.

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/64886/

Publicador

Johns Hopkins University Press

Relação

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/v038/38.4.hateley.html

DOI:10.1353/chq.2013.0061

Hateley, Erica (2013) Sink or Swim? : Revising Ophelia in contemporary young adult fiction. Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 38(4), pp. 435-448.

Fonte

Children & Youth Research Centre; School of Cultural & Professional Learning; Faculty of Education

Palavras-Chave #200205 Culture Gender Sexuality #200503 British and Irish Literature #200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified #Shakespeare #Hamlet #Ophelia #young adult literature #adaptations #gender #romance
Tipo

Journal Article