The Manic Pixie Dream Girl in US YA Fiction: Introducing a Narrative Model
Coined in 2007 by film critic Nathan Rabin, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a quirky, ethereal figure who exists merely as a tool for self-actualisation and has no narrative purpose beyond that of enriching the life of an apathetic, White, male, cisgender, heterosexual, middle-class protagonist...
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| Language: | English |
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Fincham Press
2021-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Young Adult Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/IJYAL.49 |