Perpetrators and Princesses: Transgression and Subject Formation in Killing Aurora and Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life

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  • Michelle de Villiers

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2000vol10no3art1340

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Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life, Maureen McCarthy, Killing Aurora, transgressive behaviour, agency, bildungsroman, Helen Barnes

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2000-12-01

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“Perpetrators and Princesses: Transgression and Subject Formation in Killing Aurora and Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life” (2000) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 10(3), pp. 5–11. doi:10.21153/pecl2000vol10no3art1340.

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