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Mean Girls in Graphic Texts of Girlhood

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Mean Girls in Graphic Texts of Girlhood
ByElizabeth Marshall
BookGraphic Girlhoods

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 19
eBook ISBN 9781315107356

ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the violence Nancy Drew, George Fayne, and Bess Marvin inflict on other girls in the series. The construction of Nancy Drew as empowered girl relies on the subjugation of other girls to maintain her privilege. It is through fictional representations of nice white girls like Nancy Drew that the "forgetting of violent encounter is naturalized". The chapter examines the five texts are all mysteries in which Nancy Drew makes contact with racialized girls from China, Turkey, Japan, and India and travels internationally as a result. It analyzes three texts from the original series written under the psuedonym Carolyn Keene, including The Mystery of the Fire Dragon, The Mysterious Mannequin, and The Thirteenth Pearl. These images and storylines provide a context for reading Stefan Petrucha and Sho Murase's 2006 graphic novel, The Girl Who Wasn't There, and the Her Interactive computer game, Shadow at the Water's Edge.

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