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SUMMARY:The Ghosted Adolescent: Denying and disguising ‘Deviant’ Desir
 e - Lydia Kokkola\,Adjunct Professor of Children's Literature in English a
 t Åbo Akademi University.
DTSTART:20091028T170000Z
DTEND:20091028T183000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:This paper is part of a larger project\, Silence and Sexuality
 : Reticent Responses to Adolescent Sexuality which examines the extensive 
 use of silence and absence as rhetorical devices in fiction for and about 
 sexually active teenagers. The main goal of this study is to create a syst
 ematic framework and common vocabulary for understanding how silence and a
 bsence function in literature. After a brief overview of the project as a 
 whole\, this paper will examine one particular form of silencing: ‘ghost
 ing’. Texts which ‘ghost’ adolescent sexuality either obscure our vi
 ew of the sexual adolescent or turn the character into a less confrontatio
 nal form\, for instance by metamorphosing the adolescent character prior t
 o his/her initiation into sexuality.\nLydia Kokkola is Adjunct Professor o
 f Children's Literature in English at Åbo Akademi University and has been
  Acting Professor of English Literature at the University of Turku\, Finla
 nd. Since May 2009\, she has been a research fellow at the Turku Institute
 . 
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, room 2S5
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