Melinda and Merryweather High: Parallel Identity Narratives in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak

Schiffman, Robyn L.

doi:10.21061/alan.v40i1.a.5

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Sexual Assault Survivors In Yal: Speak (1999) As a Case Study1

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“…Melinda, the protagonist, experiences silence and isolation, a stark contrast to Hermione in Exit, pursued by a bear. Many scholars have investigated the literary qualities of Speak (Ames, 2006;Day, 2013;Detora, 2006;Hubler, 2017;Latham, 2006;McGee, 2009;O'Quinn, 2001;Schiffman, 2012;Snider, 2014, among others), as well as student responses to this text (Alsup, 2003;Dykstra, 2013;Jackett, 2007;Malo-Juvera, 2014;McGee, 2009;Moore & Begoray, 2017;Park, 2012;Sprague, Keeling, & Lawrence, 2006;Tannert-Smith, 2010;Xu, 2008;Zigo & Derrico, 2008, among others). Hubler (2017) recently launched a discussion on rape in YA fiction by "credit[ing]" the novel "with propagating a feminist perspective on rape that young readers might not otherwise access" (p. 114).…”

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Amber Moore that I'm a victim at all. That makes it hard to act like one" (p. 71). Hermione's best friend, Polly, is especially supportive throughout the story. She goes out of her way to act as an ally for Hermione-work that Hermione eventually tries to reciprocate when Polly comes out as a queer woman.In this article, I contribute to a body of scholarship that examines how sexual assault is taken up in

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