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In Robin McKinley: Girl Reader, Woman Writer, Evelyn Perry examines McKinleys novels and short stories as grouped into three categories: those set in Damar, which introduce and develop the rich geographic, social, political, and linguistic history of McKinleys secondary world; the retellings of folk and fairy tales, which reveal not only McKinleys encyclopedic knowledge of source stories but her respectful and highly literate approach to their contemporary adaptation; and her other works, less easily categorized but generally most recent, written for more mature readers, and featuring a diverse set of influences from vampires to homeopathy. Perry also explores the feminist articulation of character and social settings that are dominant themes running through McKinleys works.
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Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature
Series Editor: Patty Campbell
Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature is intended to continue the body of critical writing established in Twaynes Young Adult Authors series and to expand it beyond single-author studies to explorations of genres, multicultural writing, and controversial issues in young adult (YA) reading. Many of the contributing authors of the series are among the leading scholars and critics of adolescent literature, and some are YA novelists themselves.
The series is shaped by its editor, Patty Campbell, who is a renowned authority in the field, with a forty-year background as critic, lecturer, librarian, and teacher of YA literature. Patty Campbell was the 2001 winner of the ALAN Award, given by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English for distinguished contribution to YA literature. In 1989 she was the winner of the American Library Associations Grolier Award for distinguished service to young adults and reading.
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41. Robin McKinley: Girl Reader, Woman Writer , by Evelyn M Perry, 2011.
Robin McKinley
Girl Reader, Woman Writer
Evelyn M. Perry
Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature, No. 41
the scarecow press, inc
Lanham Toronto Plymouth, UK
2011
Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc.
A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
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Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom
Copyright 2011 by Evelyn M. Perry
All rights reserved . No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Perry, Evelyn M.
Robin McKinley : girl reader, woman writer / Evelyn M. Perry.
p. cm. (Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ; no. 41)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8108-5819-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8108-7744-3 (ebook)
1. McKinley, RobinCriticism and interpretation. 2. Young adult fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism. I. Title.
PS3563.C3816Z85 2011
813'.54dc22 2010027989
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
Printed in the United States of America
For Ethan and Amelia,
my rock and my star
I would like to acknowledge The ALAN Review and The Looking Glass , in which sections of this work, or earlier versions of them, first appeared. Additionally, I am grateful for the support of many fine people at Framingham State University, including (but not limited to) Dr. Robert Martin, Dr. Elaine Beilin, and the patient students who heard my initial lectures on Robin McKinleys work. I am also indebted to Patty Campbell, series editor extraordinaire. And to my family and friends, in particular Daniel Holmes and Carol Perry (who qualify as both), much loving thanks.
I n the title story of Robin McKinleys short story collection A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories , Annabelles family moves to an old farmhouse in a small town shortly after her sixteenth birthday. A voracious reader and an avid gardener, Annabelle takes solace in planting and maintaining a new garden, and the secret pleasures and old friends of her favorite childhood fantasy books. An additional solace in her new surroundings is her attic bedroom, which affords her an idyllic view of the pastoral landscape into which she has been transplanted.
The similarities between McKinleys growing-up years and those of her protagonist can be found in Annabelles comforts while adjusting to a new home. McKinley was a self-described Navy brat and an insatiable reader who moved regularly. As a young adult, she considered books among her greatest and most constant friends and, even now as an adult, she keeps track of the places where she has been by remembering the books she was reading when she was there. McKinley is able to render Annabelles loneliness and anxiety as the new kid in town from her own experience.
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