Floating Minds: How Young Adult Fiction Represents Forgetting in Old Age and Adolescence

TY - JOUR

T1 - Floating Minds

T2 - How Young Adult Fiction Represents Forgetting in Old Age and Adolescence

AU - Waller, Alison

PY - 2021/10/1

Y1 - 2021/10/1

N2 - YA novels increasingly tell stories about memory loss, from adolescent amnesia to cognitive decline in older age. This article examines the representation of forgetting in Jenny Downham’s Unbecoming, Clare Furniss’s How Not to Disappear, and Emily Barr’s The One Memory of Flora Banks. Drawing on liberatory psychology, queer phenomenology, and theories of creative embodiment, it argues that dominant narratives of dementia and ageing might be challenged by analysing symbolic scenes of floating and falling.© 2021, International Research Society for Children’s Literature. This is an author produced version of a paper published in INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

AB - YA novels increasingly tell stories about memory loss, from adolescent amnesia to cognitive decline in older age. This article examines the representation of forgetting in Jenny Downham’s Unbecoming, Clare Furniss’s How Not to Disappear, and Emily Barr’s The One Memory of Flora Banks. Drawing on liberatory psychology, queer phenomenology, and theories of creative embodiment, it argues that dominant narratives of dementia and ageing might be challenged by analysing symbolic scenes of floating and falling.© 2021, International Research Society for Children’s Literature. This is an author produced version of a paper published in INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

UR - https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ircl.2021.0411

U2 - 10.3366/ircl.2021.0411

DO - 10.3366/ircl.2021.0411

M3 - Article

VL - 14

SP - 283

JO - INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE

JF - INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE

SN - 1755-6198

IS - 3

ER -