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Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change?The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity.
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Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change?The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity.
Subversive Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl
Critiquing and Reimagining Western and Nigerian Metanarratives
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Explores the ways Helen Oyeyemi employs adaptation and allusion to locate herself and her work within the intersections of British literature, women's literature, Nigerian literature, and Yoruba folk traditions. Dana E. Lawrence argues that in addition to its place within diasporic literature, The Icarus Girl (2005) belongs in larger conversations about adaptation and intertextuality, women’s writing, and Gothic literature. Despite the prevalence and specificity of intertextual references in Oyeyemi’s first novel, scholars have not yet examined the significance of its literary influences beyond a few brief mentions of the many allusions to British, American, and Nigerian literature and European and Yoruba mythologies contained within the work.?However, none of these studies have engaged in a true comparative analysis that situates Oyeyemi’s novel within the various literary traditions that influence its narrative. Subversive Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl seeks to remedy gaps in existing scholarship by putting The Icarus Girl in direct conversation with foundational 19th-century works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess, alongside Nigerian canonical texts like Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forest. This comparative analysis reveals Oyeyemi’s deeper engagement with 19th-century women writers, Gothic literature, and postcolonial literary traditions. Lawrence shows that The Icarus Girl examines the use of adaptation, appropriation, intertextuality, and allusion as rhetorical modes of resistance as it simultaneously admires and talks back to Western and Nigerian canonical texts.