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'I look at her shadowed shape, her eyes lit by street light. There, in the hot summer dark. I have some thing, some self-thing. An idiot’s pride. And it has a power.
'A book about cruising and being on the run without going anywhere. Raw, honest and devoid of soapboxes. A good book for boys.'(Publication summary)
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Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction
Houndmills
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2009
Z1939201
2009
single work
criticism
Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction examines how fictional texts – picture books, novels, and films – produced for children and young adults are responding to the tensions and dilemmas that arise from new gender relations and sexual differences. The book discusses a diverse range of international children's fiction published between 1990 and 2008. Some of the key dilemmas that emerge are around the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy.
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Idiot Pride and Max
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 12 no. 2 2004; (p. 8-9) -
No Place Like...: Home and School as Contested Spaces in Little Soldier and Idiot Pride
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 11 no. 2 2001; (p. 7-16)Mallan is concerned with what she sees as a key relationship between location and identity and the way 'subjectivity is shaped by movements in time' (p.7). The focus here is on children and young people who are displaced and/or exiled and find themselves removed from their 'homeland'. The notion of a solid identity is inextricably linked to ideas about place and for children this is usually the home and school which are inhabited and experienced on a physical, mental and emotional level. Furthermore, textual representations of spatiality and temporality are realized through the ways in which 'rules and codes of conduct are enforced and boundaries and bodies are materially inscribed' (p.14). Mallan's comprehensive analysis of Little Soldier (Ashley, 1999, English) and Idiot Pride (Zurbo, 1997, Australian) concludes that in both texts, '...[T]he spatial parameters of neighborhood, gang membership, ethnic and class allegiances and familial relationships are variously resisted, contested and confirmed within gendered and other discursive limitations' (p.14).
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Including Them Out : Working-Class Characters in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 40-45) -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 1998
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 42 no. 3 1998; (p. 3-13) Judge's report of the winners and shortlisted books in this year's CBCA awards.
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[Review] Idiot Pride
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 41 no. 3 1997; (p. 35)
— Review of Idiot Pride 1997 single work novel -
[Review] Idiot Pride
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 12 no. 2 1997; (p. 39)
— Review of Idiot Pride 1997 single work novel -
Boys You're Bound to Recognise
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 June 1997; (p. rev 7)
— Review of Idiot Pride 1997 single work novel ; Dear Miffy 1997 single work novel ; Beach Baby 1997 single work novel ; Spiked 1992 single work novel -
Doing Nothing, Going Nowhere
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 191 1997; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Idiot Pride 1997 single work novel ; Shoovy Jed 1997 single work novel -
Smells Like Teen Spirit
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 July 1997; (p. 10)
— Review of Idiot Pride 1997 single work novel ; Finn and the Big Guy 1997 single work novel ; Beach Baby 1997 single work novel -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 1998
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 42 no. 3 1998; (p. 3-13) Judge's report of the winners and shortlisted books in this year's CBCA awards. -
Idiot Pride and Max
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 12 no. 2 2004; (p. 8-9) -
y
Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction
Houndmills
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
2009
Z1939201
2009
single work
criticism
Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction examines how fictional texts – picture books, novels, and films – produced for children and young adults are responding to the tensions and dilemmas that arise from new gender relations and sexual differences. The book discusses a diverse range of international children's fiction published between 1990 and 2008. Some of the key dilemmas that emerge are around the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy.
-
Including Them Out : Working-Class Characters in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 40-45) -
No Place Like...: Home and School as Contested Spaces in Little Soldier and Idiot Pride
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 11 no. 2 2001; (p. 7-16)Mallan is concerned with what she sees as a key relationship between location and identity and the way 'subjectivity is shaped by movements in time' (p.7). The focus here is on children and young people who are displaced and/or exiled and find themselves removed from their 'homeland'. The notion of a solid identity is inextricably linked to ideas about place and for children this is usually the home and school which are inhabited and experienced on a physical, mental and emotional level. Furthermore, textual representations of spatiality and temporality are realized through the ways in which 'rules and codes of conduct are enforced and boundaries and bodies are materially inscribed' (p.14). Mallan's comprehensive analysis of Little Soldier (Ashley, 1999, English) and Idiot Pride (Zurbo, 1997, Australian) concludes that in both texts, '...[T]he spatial parameters of neighborhood, gang membership, ethnic and class allegiances and familial relationships are variously resisted, contested and confirmed within gendered and other discursive limitations' (p.14).
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