Kennon, Patricia
(2015)
'Little Girls are Even More Perfect When They Bleed': Monstrosity, Violence, and the Female Body in Kristin Cashore’s Graceling Trilogy.
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 53 (1).
pp. 52-61.
ISSN 0006-7377
Abstract
This article examines concepts of humanity, monstrosity, and female agency in Kristin Cashore’s recent Graceling trilogy of fantasy
novels for young adults. In particular, the teenage protagonists of
Graceling (2008), Fire (2009) and Bitterblue (2012) struggle to
resist and to reconfigure their societies’ conservative systems of
prejudice, fear, desire, difference, and violence regarding “natural” and “unnatural” female bodily experience. Cashore’s trilogy
interrogates traditional concepts of normal and aberrant female embodiment and offers thought-provoking opportunities for
personal and collective transformation.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Little girls; bleed; perfect; monstrosity; violence; female body; Kristin Cashore; Graceling Trilogy; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education |
| Item ID: |
18417 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2015.0028 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr Patricia Kennon
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Apr 2024 12:03 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature |
| Publisher: |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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