Narratives of Violence, Myths of Youth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narratives of Violence, Myths of Youth write by Kathryn E. Linder. This book was released on 2011. Narratives of Violence, Myths of Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract: Throughout the 1990s in the United States, a series of suburban school shootings perpetrated by young, white males disrupted contemporary perceptions of American youth, often a population configured in terms of ideal whiteness. In conjunction with sensationalized media coverage of school shootings, various fictional portrayals of suburban youth violence also emerged throughout this period as what Henry Giroux has called "public pedagogy" that served to further influence national perceptions of youth. In this body of film, television and literary narratives, school violence is often related to other national concerns surrounding American youth identity such as deviant sexuality and teen pregnancy. While a good deal of scholarly attention has focused on popular representations of education and youth generally, little has been written about these specific fictionalizations of school shootings and what they signify. This dissertation offers a feminist, discursive analysis of these fictional narratives of suburban school violence and argues that rampage violence narratives are intricately connected to national anxieties regarding youth, citizenship, threats to white masculinity, and American identity. In order to illustrate the complexities of themes present across popular culture mediums, my research delves into the purpose of the narratives and what they signify about contemporary American youth identity. Thus, my dissertation will explore representations of youth violence from a variety of angles that prioritize intertextual connections. Specifically, I offer a comparative analysis of portrayals of urban versus suburban school violence, explore the creation of gay male shooters as protagonists, and analyze fictional female shooter characters and teen pregnancy storylines. As well, my dissertation examines the genre phenomenon of young adult novels portraying school violence in order to place these novels in dialogue with other "adult" narratives. Throughout my dissertation I explicate the ways in which school shooting narratives reflect and challenge political and academic debates that situate American youth as current and future citizens in the U.S.
Rampage Violence Narratives
Rampage Violence Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rampage Violence Narratives write by Kathryn E. Linder. This book was released on 2014-04-24. Rampage Violence Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Springfield. Columbine. Sandy Hook. Each school shooting in the United States is followed by a series of questions. Why does this happen? Who are the shooters? How can this be prevented? Along with parents, school officials, media outlets, and scholars, popular culture has also attempted to respond to these questions through a variety of fictional portrayals of rampage violence. Rampage Violence Narratives: What Fictional Accounts of Rampage Violence Say about the Future of America’s Youth offers a detailed look at the state of youth identity in American cultural representations of youth violence through an extended analysis of over forty primary sources of fictional narratives of urban and suburban/rural school violence. Representations of suburban and rural school shootings that are modeled after real-life events serve to shape popular understandings of the relationship between education and American identity, the liminal space between childhood and adulthood, and the centrality of white heterosexual masculinity to definitions of social and political success in the United States. Through a series of "case studies" that offer in-depth examinations of fictional depictions of school shootings in film and literature, it becomes clear that these stories are representative of a larger social narrative regarding the future of the United States. The continuing struggle to understand youth violence is part of an ongoing conversation about what it means to raise future citizens within a cultural moment that views youth through a lens of anxiety rather than optimism.
Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats
Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats write by T. Balinisteanu. This book was released on 2012-11-14. Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
Youth and Violent Performativities
Youth and Violent Performativities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth and Violent Performativities write by Ben Arnold Lohmeyer. This book was released on 2020-06-12. Youth and Violent Performativities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group. Instead, the book critically examines how young people become violent as they enact and resist the available violent performativities in youth. It focuses on the experiences of 28 young people in Australia who are subjected to violence, who use violence and who resist violence. A critical analysis of these young people’s “messy” stories facilitates a reframing of the physical violence routinely attributed to young people as a product of violating systems and structures. The author constructs a converging theoretical landscape to re-examine youth, violence and resistance at the intersection of the sociology of violence and the sociology of youth. Drawing on interviews with young Australians, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary international scholarship on youth and violence, while also examining the potential for complicity to violence in youth research and practice. In doing so it offers youth scholars and practitioners a framework for reassessing their theoretical frameworks and methods for studying and working with young people in connection with violence.
Losing a Generation
Losing a Generation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Losing a Generation write by . This book was released on 1997. Losing a Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
