Creating Stargirl

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Creating Stargirl

• HUM 3285 Postmodern Adolescent Literature
• Spring 2012
• Dr. Perdigao
• February 17-22, 2012

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Developments

• Identity constructionLeos sense of self (126)
• Derived from others
• Fear of being singled out (Jerry, Melinda)
• Lessons on conformity (137)
• Us vs. them (Adam) (138)
• Psychological warfare vs. physical violence
• Ocotillo Ball
• As myth, legend? (169)
• So distracting, so complete (169-170)
• Fifteen years later (176)

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Redefining Stargirl

• And just like that, Stargirl was gone, replaced
  by Susan. Susan Julia Caraway. The girl she
  might have been all along (139).
• Susan Caraway
• Evelyn Everybody (142)
• Mockingbird (The Hunger Games?) (150)
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• Star people
• Shes better than bones
• When a Stargirl cries, she does not shed tears,
  but light
• the rabbit in the hat
• the universal solvent
• the recycler of our garbage (181)
• More than stars

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Rereading Stargirl

• Bildungsroman vs. entwicklungsroman
• Leos career (181)
• Gendered types
• Role of parents, teachers (Mr. McShane)
• Place of adolescence, childhood
• Enchanted place remapped, redesigned (183)
• The Sunflowers (185)
• Return to Porcupine Necktie, ends where it
  began