Dismissing Voices of Resistance? Adolescent Girls and "Teen Angst" Poetry

Authors

  • Susan Hart University of Winnipeg

Keywords:

Adolescent girls, Poetry, Self-expression, Youth development

Abstract

This paper explores how the label "teen angst poetry" might serve to silence the voices of adolescent girls. It raises issues around how certain discourse traditions and communities label our words and then use these labels to either accept or dismiss our experience of the world.

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Published

2001-04-01

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2001): 25th anniversary volume: part two

Section

Original Research

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