Unruly Girls and Unruly Language: Typography and Play in David Almond’s My Name is Mina.

Tandoi, Eve

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“…Hence, Mina's writing can be seen from the embodiment theoretical framework's point of view (Harde, Kokkola 2017). In particular, Eve Tandoi (2014), in an interesting article on My name is Mina and the use of typography, underlines how the girl's philosophy is deeply rooted in the body, connecting herself both to the animated beings and inanimate objects that surround her, and that she can experience. Following these remarks, we can say that in Mina's writing words are not just words, since they give her a sort of physical pleasure, they are in a certain way alive, and at the same time, they make her feel alive: they are something the girl can play with, something she can even taste.…”

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What food do we feed girls as artist upon?

Malpezzi

2020

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Virginia Woolf in A room of one’s own (1929) builds a strong connection between food and the material conditions of women writers, asking herself: what food do we feed women as artists upon? From this point of view, food can be considered a metaphor for the achievement of both artistic and gender equality. Hence, my paper aims to outline the relevance of this under-investigated topic in children’s literature, focusing on feminist Künstellromans, namely stories about a female artist’s journey to maturity. Drawing from the methodology of Nodelman, I will investigate two opposite narrative situations: famine and feast. In the first one, the lack of food represents the struggle in the artistic development, often caused by a hostile educational environment, while, in the second, nourishment can be interpreted as fruitful sustainment for the body and soul. My hypothesis seeks to underline how food and girls’ development as women and artists intertwine in children’s literature, figuring out a possible answer to Woolf’s question.

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Section: My Name Is Mina -Tasting Wordsmentioning

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What food do we feed girls as artist upon?

Malpezzi

2020

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Unruly Girls and Unruly Language: Typography and Play in David Almond’s My Name is Mina.

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