RE-EXAMINING THE “HERO’S JOURNEY”: A CRITICAL REFLECTION ON LITERATURE SELECTION FOR AFFECTIVE BIBLIOTHERAPY PROGRAMS ON RESILIENCE

• Authors: Reynolds Kendra
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This article critically examines the Hero’s Journey arc, popular in affective bibliotherapy for children and young people. Privileging this archetypal model of resilience represses and excludes difference. It posits two alternatives, foregrounding characters who face additional cultural, social, and political factors that hinder their capacity to act, and argues that bibliotherapy must be inclusive, incorporating stories that offer alternative depictions of resilience that are complicated, messy, and non-linear but no less “heroic”.

Keywords

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BIBLIOTHERAPY; RESILIENCE; CHILDREN; VULNERABILITY

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 113 – 125

Contributors

author

Reynolds Kendra

• Verbal Arts Centre, Stable Lane and Mall Wall, Bishop Street, Londonderry BT48 6PU, United Kingdom

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8455-7241