Abstract
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.
© 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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 283 |
Number of pages | 298 |
Journal | INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 14 Sep 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2021 |