{"product_id":"reading-like-a-girl-sara-k-day-9781496804471","title":"Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature","description":"By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (\u003ci\u003eSomeone Like You\u003c\/i\u003e), Stephenie Meyer (the \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (\u003ci\u003eSpeak\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eReading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature\u003c\/i\u003e explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. \u003ci\u003eReading Like a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term \"narrative intimacy\" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story's narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women's relations prove to be problematic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidant, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara K. Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496804473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496804471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Sara K. Day","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985884283135,"sku":"9781496804471","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00ee8e28-087b-407e-a232-4eb9f71d9bd3.jpg?v=1683280109","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-like-a-girl-sara-k-day-9781496804471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}