Kennon, Patricia
(2015)
‘If the Inside was the Outside’: Gender, Heteronormativity
and the Body in David Levithan’s Every Day.
Foundation, 44 (122).
pp. 58-67.
ISSN 0306-4964
Abstract
The opening lines of David Levithan’s Every Day (2012) immediately pull
the reader into the fascinating and disorienting existence of A, the sixteenyear-
old protagonist who wakes up every morning to spend that day in one
body, only to awaken the next morning inhabiting a different body. During the
course of the novel and across the variety of young lives that A inhabits, A
encounters Rihannon, a teenage girl. They forge a connection and fall in love.
Drawing upon the transformative potential of the fantastic, Levithan uses A’s
extraordinary ability to explore the intersections between subjectivity and the
gendered body and to interrogate traditional norms of masculinity, femininity
and gender ontology. A and Rihannon’s tentatively evolving relationship
proposes intriguing possibilities for the reimagining and expansion of concepts
of sexuality, difference and selfhood in literature for young people...
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Levithan, David; Every Day; Gender; Heteronormativity; Body; heterosexuality; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education |
| Item ID: |
11467 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr Patricia Kennon
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| Date Deposited: |
25 Oct 2019 15:35 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Foundation |
| Publisher: |
Science Fiction Foundation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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