Title: Being There: The Spatiality of ‘Other World’ Fantasy Fiction
Abstract: Fantasy other worlds are often seen as alternative, wholly ‘other’ locations that operate as critiques of the ‘real’ world, or provide spaces where child protagonists can take advantage of the otherness they encounter in their own process of growth. Rather than consider fantasy fiction's presentations of ‘other’ worlds in this way, this article proposes reading them as potential thirdspaces of performance and activity that are neutral rather than confrontational such that, in fantasy other world fiction for children and young adults, the putative ‘other’ world may not, in fact, be ‘other’ at all.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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