Salt-Raper, E orcid.org/0000-0002-5829-3948 (2022) “I’m Going to Be Straight, Just Like How My Father Would’ve Wanted”. Boyhood Studies, 15 (1-2). pp. 25-47. ISSN 2375-9240
Abstract
While the increasing visibility of LGBTQ+ identities in recent young adult fiction has received much critical attention, such novels that contain the added complex distinction of adolescent male mental illness and recovery represent an underexamined area. This article produces readings of two recent young adult texts that feature gay male protagonists who experience mental illness: Adam Silvera’s More Happy Than Not (2015) and John Corey Whaley’s Highly Illogical Behaviour (2016). It investigates how the texts’ embedded heteronormative scripts, relationships between the symptoms and the self, and frameworks of health-related shame are fraught with anxieties, producing a complex double movement that simultaneously establishes and undermines gay males’ control over their mental illnesses and recovery trajectories to move the characters between spaces of empowerment and marginalization.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This is a post–peer-review, precopyedited version of an article published in Boyhood Studies. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Salt-Raper, E. (2022). “I’m Going to Be Straight, Just Like How My Father Would’ve Wanted”. Boyhood Studies 15, 1-2, 25-47 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2022.15010203. |
Keywords: | gay; gender; masculinity; medical humanities; mental illness; shame; young adult literature |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2022 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2024 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Berghahn Journals |
Identification Number: | 10.3167/bhs.2022.15010203 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:192671 |