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Publication details [#41012]
Gubar, Marah. 2004. "Whacked-Out Partners": The Inversion of Empathy in the Joey Pigza Trilogy. Children's Literature in Education 35 (3) : 219–239. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Springer
Annotation
This paper discusses how Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza trilogy rejects the literary tradition that depicts the impaired child as a passive object of empathy.