New Female Role Models from Around the World: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Biographies for children have always been popular among young readers, but they are becoming an increasingly important part of children’s literature in the twenty-first century. Most prominent are the collections offering short life-sketches of historical and contemporary figures who can serve as po...
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| description | Biographies for children have always been popular among young readers, but they are becoming an increasingly important part of children’s literature in the twenty-first century. Most prominent are the collections offering short life-sketches of historical and contemporary figures who can serve as positive role models for young readers from diverse backgrounds. This article discusses the international bestseller Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women (2016) from a feminist, transnational perspective. Focusing on the authors’ narrative strategies, it investigates how tropes of agency are used to make aware of women’s struggles and successes across time and space. Further, it examines how girls are actively encouraged to continue these legacies. Ultimately, the analysis shows that Goodnight Stories establishes connections between women from diverse countries and continents, and at the same time reveals cross-cultural differences in how the book has been received in different corners of the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4c30227245aa40f2abc30a147f0c4a422022-12-21T23:08:25ZengUniversity of Groningen PressEuropean Journal of Life Writing2211-243X2021-12-0110BB135BB15410.21827/ejlw.10.3816727817New Female Role Models from Around the World: Goodnight Stories for Rebel GirlsMarleen Rensen0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-0022University of AmsterdamBiographies for children have always been popular among young readers, but they are becoming an increasingly important part of children’s literature in the twenty-first century. Most prominent are the collections offering short life-sketches of historical and contemporary figures who can serve as positive role models for young readers from diverse backgrounds. This article discusses the international bestseller Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women (2016) from a feminist, transnational perspective. Focusing on the authors’ narrative strategies, it investigates how tropes of agency are used to make aware of women’s struggles and successes across time and space. Further, it examines how girls are actively encouraged to continue these legacies. Ultimately, the analysis shows that Goodnight Stories establishes connections between women from diverse countries and continents, and at the same time reveals cross-cultural differences in how the book has been received in different corners of the world.https://ejlw.eu/article/view/38167biographies for childrenfemale role modelsdiversitytransnationalism |
| spellingShingle | Marleen Rensen New Female Role Models from Around the World: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls European Journal of Life Writing biographies for children female role models diversity transnationalism |
| title | New Female Role Models from Around the World: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls |
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