Caring, Disability Studies, and Narrative Structure
Caring, Disability Studies, and Narrative Structure
As enacted in the twenty-first century study of children’s and adolescent literature, Disability Studies, feminist narrative theory, and feminist reader response theory emphasize material aspects of caring, relationality, and cooperation. This chapter discusses Marissa Meyer’s Cinder in terms of caring and Disability Studies. Narrative layering also helps authors interrogate levels of care, so the remaining novels in this chapter include embedded narratives that help the protagonist grow in her ethics of care. To explore how feminist narrative theories of children’s and adolescent literature are imbued with ethics of care, the chapter provides readings of Jennifer Donnelly’s Revolution and Kate DiCamillo’s Flora & Ulysses. In the final section, to interrogate feminist reader response theory in the YA novel as a function of ethics of care, the chapter examines Linda Sue Park’s Project Mulberry.
Keywords: Ethics of Care, Ethics, Narrative structure, Reader response, Disability Studies
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