Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction

Noah O'Connor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-58273-5 (ISBN)

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The Asexual Exile trope positions asexual characters outside of society by portraying them as loners, inhuman, or adjacent to death. This research identifies trends in these portrayals by considering a corpus of 42 traditionally published novels of Young Adult fiction featuring asexual protagonists. A distant reading of this corpus finds that the Asexual Exile trope is employed in approximately two-thirds of cases. The author analyses how this trope permutates across genres, and the frequency of its endorsement and subversion by these narratives. Presenting the first extensive investigation into the Asexual Exile trope in YA fiction, this research investigates how asexual characters are Othered as not truly alive, and how these messages then rebound into necropolitical cultural understandings of asexual people as expendable. The results prompt the questions: how does the Asexual Exile trope influence Young Adult readers in the formation of their ideologies? How can publishers do better?

Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Compulsory sexuality and the tensions we inherit; 3. Death, exile, and possibilities in asexual YA fiction; 4. Asexual necropolitics and exile alternatives; 5. Looking ahead; References; Corpus.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 178 mm
Gewicht	106 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-009-58273-9 / 1009582739
ISBN-13	978-1-009-58273-5 / 9781009582735
Zustand	Neuware