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Disorienting Reading
- Children's Literature Association Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2007
- pp. 29-46
- 10.1353/chq.2007.0015
- Article
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Abstract
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind (1989) and Haveli (1993) by Suzanne Fisher Staples depict the life of Shabanu, a contemporary Pakistani girl. In this depiction, Staples offers a disorienting experience for her child and adolescent readers by using defamiliarization, the juxtaposition of the pre-industrial and industrial, and contraventions of typical plot resolutions and character development. As a result, readers are prevented from seeing their own experience reflected in Shabanu's experience; consequently readers must rely on the exercise of their own generous imaginations to open the new perspectives and experiences portrayed in the novels.
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