How To Use a Bookworm: Michael Cart's My Father's Scar as a crossover novel

Trušník, Roman

dc.title	How To Use a Bookworm: Michael Cart's My Father's Scar as a crossover novel	en
dc.contributor.author	Trušník, Roman
dc.relation.ispartof	Theories in Practice: Proceedings of the First International Conference on English and American Studies
dc.identifier.isbn	978-80-7318-823-8
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.citation.spage	177
dc.citation.epage	181
dc.event.title	1st International Conference on English and American Studies
dc.event.location	Zlín
utb.event.state-en	Czech Republic
utb.event.state-cs	Česká republika
dc.event.sdate	2009-09
dc.type	conferenceObject
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně (UTB)	cs
dc.publisher	Tomas Bata University in Zlín	en
dc.relation.uri	http://conference.uaa.utb.cz/TheoriesInPractice2009.pdf#page=177
dc.subject	American literature	en
dc.subject	homosexuality	en
dc.subject	gay literature	en
dc.subject	coming out	en
dc.subject	young adult novels	en
dc.subject	crossover novels	en
dc.subject	Michael Cart	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper explores the contestable border between adult and young adult gay (male) fiction published in the United States since the late 1960s. Since the 1990s crossover novels have been published, and Michael Cart's My Father's Scar is an early example of this trend. What makes this novel acceptable both as an adult and young adult title is primarily its use of two alternating narrative lines and the bookworm narrator. Neither technique is original, yet only in the 1990s did they become widely acceptable in gay young-adult fiction.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1001790
utb.identifier.rivid	RIV/70883521:28150/10:63509898!RIV11-GA0-28150___
utb.identifier.obdid	43865583
utb.identifier.wok	000279603400019
utb.source	d-wok
dc.date.accessioned	2011-08-09T07:33:58Z
dc.date.available	2011-08-09T07:33:58Z
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Trušník, Roman