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1 1 y separately published work icon Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction : A Poetics of Earth Alice Curry , Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 Z1939206 2013 single work criticism This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards eco-crisis and human responsibility. Identifying the neoliberal discourses of individualism and self-advancement that 'feminise' categories lying outside the parameters of the adult white male, it explores the ways in which contemporary young adult authors attempt to develop a sustainable ethic of care that can encompass 'feminised' peoples and spatialities, including nonhumans and the environment. With particular reference to the ways in which global processes are mapped onto the local landscape, it advocates a poetics of earth to replace the disengaged planetary consciousness often engendered through crisis. Discussing a range of contemporary texts and authors, this study lays forth various transformative responses to eco-crisis at a time of escalating global concern over the environment. (Source: publisher's website)
1 Strung With Contour Lines Alice Curry , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: The Griffith Review , no. 42 2013; (p. 108-113)
1 Lying, or Storytelling, as Antidote to Unhappiness in Robin Klein's Hating Alison Ashley and Anne Fine's A Pack of Lies and Goggle-Eyes Alice Curry , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , June vol. 18 no. 1 2008; (p. 41-47)

Alice Curry introduces her essay on 'the art of lying' in children's fiction with quotes from Wilde and Nietzsche that posit 'lying as an artistic form of self-expression, done knowingly, purposefully and with attention given to form and detail' (41). Her analysis of lying and storytelling in Hating Alison Ashley, by Australian author Robin Klein and Goggle-Eyes by British author Anne Fine discusses how in both novels, the young girl protagionists experience, and subsequently negotiate, unhappiness due to the 'introduction of an alien element' into their families.

In both novels the trauma of divorce or separation is compounded by the 'intrusion' of the mother's boyfriend/potential husband (41). She argues that the protgonists of both novels, Erica and Kitty, become 'honorary authors' by 'creating stories or constructing lies' as reactions to unhappiness and in doing so, gain 'self-confidence and subjectivity through increased possibility for self expression' (41). Curry argues the merits of 'the liberating effects of creative lying' (41) based on the ability of both protgonists to 'imagine a world in which they themselves have more than just limited agency, giving them the ability to find their own creative solutions to the problem of unhappiness' (47).
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