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Maguire, Emma. "Potential: Ariel Schrag Contests (Hetero-)Normative Girlhood." Prose Studies 35. (2013): 54–66. Added by: joachim (24/08/2013, 13:31) Last edited by: joachim (03/08/2018, 11:15) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2013.781411 BibTeX citation key: Maguire2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Potential", Autobiography, Children’s and young adults’ comics, Gender, Schrag. Ariel, Sexuality, USA Creators: Maguire Collection: Prose Studies |
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Using the medium of graphic memoir, 17-year-old Ariel Schrag brings to life an alternative to heteronormative mainstream representations of girlhood, and in self-publishing at such a young age, she also takes charge of her own representation and the circulation of that representation as a teenage girl. With an emphasis on the enabling formal characteristics of comics medium, I consider how the young author addresses the representation of her girlhood sexuality in light of theories of girlhood and girls’ media-making practices. Specifically, I position Potential as “risk-taking self-representation” that creates space for marginal girlhoods to be articulated and explored via the “inventive textual practice” of comics (Chute 26) by articulating a lesbian identity in the symbolic and protected spaces of adolescent rites of passage. Drawing on Judith Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure, I explore how representations of failure in Schrag’s depictions of prom work to open up alternative possibilities for adolescent femininity and sexuality.
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