Fictions of Adolescent Carnality

Sexy sinners and delinquent deviants
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-0155-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 236 Seiten, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition

Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting and, just occasionally, a source of pleasure. The on-set of desire, within the Anglophone tradition, has been closely associated with the loss of innocence and the end of childhood. Drawing on a corpus of 200 narratives of adolescent desire, Kokkola examines the connections between sociological accounts of teenagers’ sexual behaviour, adult fears for and about their off-spring and fictional representations of adolescents exploring their sexuality. Taking up topics such as adolescent pregnancy and parenthood, queer sexualities, animal-human connections and sexual abuse, Kokkola provides wide-ranging insights into how Anglophone literature responds to adolescents’ carnal desires, and contributes to on-going debates on the construction of adolescence and the ideology of innocence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kokkola, Lydia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie