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Fantasies of Place and Childhood in Francesca Lia Block's I Was a Teenage Fairy
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 39, 2011
- pp. 107-125
- 10.1353/chl.2011.0020
- Article
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This paper analyzes Block's extensive use of the British Cottingley fairy hoax in I Was a Teenage Fairy to reveal how the novel challenges the ideal of childhood innocence and provides readers with new models for thinking about and representing childhood sexuality and abuse.