Girlhood Unscripted
A Homeless Black Girl's Video Narratives and the New Terrain of Representation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408867 |
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| Authors | Olga Ivashkevich (0000-0002-1308-9978) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 406-414 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708616674991 |
| OpenAlex | W2538863241 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The article examines impromptu video narratives produced by a Black 9-year-old girl Kiara during the video-making sessions at the shelter for homeless families in Columbia, South Carolina. I argue that these video narratives create a new discourse of girlhood that ruptures existing media, popular culture, and other societal scripts about girlhood and disenfranchised communities-a discourse of girlhood unscripted-which brings into play the complex intersections of class, ethnicity, race, and gender and produces a new realm of representation. Drawing on her daily experiences of poverty, hunger, violence, incarceration, and racism, Kiara's narratives also pose a challenge to the field of girlhood studies which continues to focus on White, middle-class femininity thereby creating a scholarly trap of representation
Art · Femininity · Girl · Impromptu · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Racism · Realm · Representation (politics · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Gender Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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