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Tag Archives: agency
YA Gothic at ‘Investigating Identities’ (2): Identity, Agency, Assimilation and Paranormal Romance
Following on from Sam’s post on her keynote talk for the Investigating Identities in Young Adult YA Narratives symposium at the University of Northampton on 16 December, I thought I should post a synopsis of the paper I’ll be presenting … Continue reading
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Tagged agency, animality, Genre, Gothic, identity, Paranormal romance, sympathetic monster, YA Fiction
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Tracy Hastie, ‘Leather Clad Heroines and the Monster Within’
An excellent blog post by Tracy Hastie on the ambivalent sexual politics of the female protagonist of paranormal romance/urban fantasy.
