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1	"Lock Up Your Sons": Queering Young Adult Literature and Social Discourse Wheadon, Rebekah 17 August 2012 (has links) Young adult literature (YA) has been stereotypical in many of its portrayals of LGBTQ teens from the 1960s to the early 2000s, but three contemporary YA series--Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments, Sarah Rees Brennan's Demons trilogy, and Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tales--indicate a change toward more nuanced characterizations. Using four categories--scriptedness, context, importance, and sexuality--to determine whether these representations of LGBTQ youth challenge or reiterate older tropes, my analysis indicates that YA has moved toward more complex representations of queerness, yet some normative discursive structures are still at work, such as poisonings or curses, supernatural parallels to coming out, and heteronormative humour. Although representations of queerness have diversified, then, the implicit ideologies in each author's portrayal of queerness demands closer attention. young adult literature queer theory queer culture LGBTQ children's literature the mortal instruments cassandra clare sarah rees brennan the demon's lexicon holly black modern faerie tales urban fantasy history of young adult literature representation ideology
2	"Framför mig stod den vackraste man jag någonsin sett.” : Kvinnliga drag, egenskaper och funktioner hos manliga karaktärer i fantasy-romaner för unga vuxna / ”Standing before me was the most beautiful man I’d ever seen.” : Female traits, qualities and functions of male characters in fantasy-novels for young adults Darstedt, Olivia January 2021 (has links) The current paper is a study of the male characters Simon and Jace from Cassandra Clare's City of Bones (2010), and the characters Tamlin and Rhysand from Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015). The main aim is to examine whether the characters in these fantasy novels for young adults have traits and functions that previously have been used to describe and portray female characters. The study discovered among other things that vulnerability and sensitivity could be found in all the characters, especially when danger was upon them or their loved ones. Simon was also the only character that was not portrayed with skills in combat, which was mocked by the other male characters but not by the female protagonist. The two male characters in A Court of Thorns and Roses were also portraited as sexual objects in the novel, and Rhysand was exposed to sexual abuse by the novel’s antagonist, which can be seen as stereotypical female trait. The male character’s function in the novels was to have a folie function to each other, and be a love interest, a confidant, and a choir to the female protagonist. The male characters in the novels were also the ones who needed to be rescued by the female characters, and thereby found themselves in a female position. Cassandra Clare City of Bones Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses Jace Simon Tamlin Rhysand Gender Theory Gender Roles Female Characters Male Characters Stereotypes Character Analysis Young Adult Literature Fantasy Literature Cassandra Clare Stad av skuggor Sarah J. Maas Ett hov av taggar och rosor Jace Simon Tamlin Rhysand Genusteori Könsroller Kvinnliga karaktärer Manliga karaktärer Stereotyper Karaktärsanalys Litteratur för unga vuxna Fantasy litteratur Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap

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"Lock Up Your Sons": Queering Young Adult Literature and Social Discourse