Looking glasses and neverlands : Lacan, desire, and subjectivity in children's literature / by Karen Coats.

Author/creator Coats, Karen, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.
Descriptionx, 191 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents The subject of children's literature -- How to save your life: lessons from a runt pig -- A time to mourn: the loss of the mother -- Mourning into dancing: recuperating the loss of the mother -- Looking glasses and neverlands: beyond the symbolic -- "I never explain anything": children's literature and sexuation -- Blinded by the white: the responsibilities of race -- Abjection and adolescent fiction: ways out -- Postmoderns at the gates of dawn.
Local noteLittle-345161--305131051281U
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
LCCN 2003066270
ISBN0877458820 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN1009.5.P78 C63 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold