Is It Really Mommie Dearest?: Daughter-Mother Narratives in Young Adult Fiction

by Hilary S. Crew

In this study, feminist theories and insights from new discourses on female adolescence are employed in analyzing the discourses and cultural scripts used in telling stories about the relationship between teenage daughters and mothers in young adult novels and in short stories. The stories examined in this book were marketed for young adults and published between 1965 and 1998. Included are daughter-mother narratives, African-American young adult...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810836920
• ISBN13: 9780810836921
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"