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Sparkling vampires: Valorizing self-harming behavior in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 3, July 2011
- pp. 33-46
- 10.1353/bkb.2011.0054
- Article
- Additional Information
The author provides an in-depth examination of the popular Twilight series in terms of the depiction of self-harming behaviors, noting interesting parallels with theories about battered women and raising questions about how such issues are handled in novels for young people.