商品簡介
Dunn presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with a comprehensive investigation of the relative agency of disabled characters in a variety of young adult novels and short stories. The author has organized the main body of her text in five chapters devoted to agency, rebellion, and challenging of the status quo in Accidents of Nature and The Acorn People, respect, etiquette, and the drama of rude behavior, awakening stories, carving out identity in Peeling the Onion, Stoner and Spaz, and The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and a variety of other related subjects. Patricia A. Dunn is a faculty member of Stony Brook University, New York. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Patricia A. Dunn received her doctorate from the University at Albany. She is an associate professor in Stony Brook University’s English Teacher Education Program. She is the author of Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies, as well as a number of articles on disability. In 2013, she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
