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Singular Yet Shared: Willful Heroines And Their Willful Communities In Young Adult Fantasy, Shea Delehaunty
Singular Yet Shared: Willful Heroines And Their Willful Communities In Young Adult Fantasy, Shea Delehaunty
Honors Theses
The psychological theory of narrative identity posits that we create our identities based on a narrative life-story, and that adolescence is a pivotal moment in this process. Literature is one of the most familiar examples of narrative, so what, then, does the literature adolescents read teach them about identity as they construct their own narrative identities? What kinds of characters are portrayed and what can we learn about the adolescents influenced by those characters? This thesis is interested in these questions specifically as they relate to contemporary adolescent girls, who often grow up reading young adult (YA) high fantasy novels …