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By Tison Pugh

Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines exceptional classics of children’s literature either outdated and new—including L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House sequence, J. ok. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket’s a sequence of unlucky Events, and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series—to discover the queer tensions among innocence and heterosexuality inside of their pages. Pugh argues that youngsters can't hold their innocence of sexuality whereas studying approximately normative heterosexuality, but this inherent paradox runs all through many vintage narratives of literature for younger readers. Children’s literature quite often endorses heterosexuality via its invisible presence because the de facto sexual identification of numerous protagonists and their households, but heterosexuality’s ubiquity is counterbalanced by way of its occlusion whilst authors protect their readers from forthright issues of 1 of humanity’s most simple and primal instincts.



The e-book demonstrates that tensions among innocence and sexuality render a lot of children’s literature queer, specifically whilst those texts disavow sexuality via celebrations of innocence. during this unique examine, Pugh develops interpretations of sexuality that few critics have not begun ventured, paving the way in which for destiny scholarly engagement with greater questions on the ideological function of kid's literature and representations of kid's sexuality.



Tison Pugh is affiliate Professor within the division of English on the college of primary Florida. he's the writer of Queering Medieval Genres and Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in center English Literature and has released on children’s literature in such journals as Children’s Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Marvels and Tales.

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