Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction

Michelle Smith; Kristine Moruzi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_36

Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction

Michelle Smith, Kristine Moruzi

Literary Studies

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Abstract

The twenty-first century has seen a marked increase in the gothic themes of liminality, monstrosity, transgression, romance, and sexuality in fiction for young adults. This chapter examines how gothic traditions are repurposed and reconfigured for young people, with a focus on how the gender of the protagonist impacts upon the narrative. We consider two vampire novels with human female narrators and two novels with somewhat monstrous male narrators (one a zombie and the other a young Victor Frankenstein) to examine how the genre remains preoccupied with the patriarchal threat posed to young women while simultaneously attempting to understand and humanise the monster.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic
Editors	Clive Bloom
Place of Publication	Cham Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	609-622
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030331368
ISBN (Print)	9783030331351
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_36
Publication status	Published - 2020

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