{"product_id":"girls-transforming-invisibility-and-age-shifting-in-childrens-fantasy-fiction-since-the-1970s-9780786461363","title":"Girls Transforming: Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sanna Lehtonen | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women's Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46861646495895,"sku":"9780786461363","price":3713.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786461363.webp?v=1769962926","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/girls-transforming-invisibility-and-age-shifting-in-childrens-fantasy-fiction-since-the-1970s-9780786461363","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}