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"""Austin skillfully weaves together material from a range of disciplines--queer theory, children's literature, film, print media--to illuminate a fresh perspective on the study of monsters and the monstrous. A pleasure to read, from start to finish."" --Michelle Ann Abate, author of No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults ""Through keen and timely observations about monsters as cultural products directed towards children, Monstrous Youth expands the critical conversation about monstrosity in American culture and reveals a great deal about the shifting perceptions of youth, innocence, race, class, gender, and outsiders."" --Jessica R. McCort, author of Reading in the Dark: Horror in Children's Literature and Culture"

Austin skillfully weaves together material from a range of disciplines--queer theory, children's literature, film, print media--to illuminate a fresh perspective on the study of monsters and the monstrous. A pleasure to read, from start to finish. --Michelle Ann Abate, author of No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults Through keen and timely observations about monsters as cultural products directed towards children, Monstrous Youth expands the critical conversation about monstrosity in American culture and reveals a great deal about the shifting perceptions of youth, innocence, race, class, gender, and outsiders. --Jessica R. McCort, author of Reading in the Dark: Horror in Children's Literature and Culture

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Sara Austin teaches in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University. Her articles have appeared in International Research in Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, among other journals.

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