The Girl in the Text

<p> How are girls represented in written and graphic texts and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality. In literary and transactional texts girls are presented as heroes who empower themselves and others with lasting effect as figures of liberating pedagogical practice and educational activism and as catalysts for discussions of the relationship between desire and ethics. In these varied chapters a new notion of transnationalism emerges one rooted not only in the process through which borders between nation-states become more porous but through which cultural and ethnic imperatives become permeable.</p>