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“A girl. A machine. A freak”: A Consideration of Contemporary Queer Composites
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, January 2014
- pp. 51-62
- 10.1353/bkb.2014.0033
- Article
- Additional Information
Approaching queerness as intrinsically tied to the rejection of notions of the self as fixed, stable, and monolithic, I argue that contemporary young adult literature that incorporates inter-species romances is a site of new queer possibilities. I read Marissa Meyer’s Cinder and the first two novels in Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone series as broadening current metaphors for queerness.