The Distributable Analysis of Frankie Landau-Banks

Mon, 28 May 2012 17:21:02 GMT

I had this whole draft post written out which explained how it came to be that

bestselling YA author Kristin Cashore;
children’s lit professor Deborah Kaplan, a.k.a. yours truly;
children’s lit critic Rebecca Rabinowitz; and
assistant agent at the Sheldon Fogelman Agency Amy Stern

came to record ourselves sitting around for several hours one wonderful afternoon talking about feminist readings of E. Lockhart's young adult novel The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, but Amy's introduction to the videos is so thorough and informative that I can't improve on it.

All I can say is that I will forever be grateful to the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature (where, full disclosure, I teach) for introducing me to these wonderful people¹ and for giving us all the tools and the support to think about literature in so many interesting, productive ways.

Go watch the videos.

(Hey, Kristin just posted, too!)

Technically, fandom introduced me to Amy. She is only one of the many wonderful people introduced to me by fandom for whom I will forever be grateful. Fandom, incidentally, also gives people some pretty good textual analysis tools. [back]

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