In terms of gender, children’s fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a multiplicity of discourses.
Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known.
The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children’s books is reviewed this is the first study of children’s fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl’s changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. more "This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English-language children’s fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. "This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English-language ch.
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