Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

<p><em>Youth Fiction and Trans Representation</em> is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature television and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of media—including picture books novels graphic novels animated cartoons and live-action television and feature films—<i>Youth Fiction and Trans Representation</i> examines how youth texts are addressing and contributing to ongoing shifts in understandings of gender in the new millennium. While perhaps once considered inappropriate for youth and continuing to face backlash trans and gender variant representation in texts for young people has become more common which signals changes in understandings of childhood and adolescence as well as gender expression and identity. <i>Youth Fiction and Trans Representation</i> provides a broad outline of developments in trans and gender variant depictions for young people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and closely analyzes a series of millennial literary and screen texts to consider how they communicate a range of often competing ideas about gender identity expression and embodiment to implied child and adolescent audiences.</p>