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White Jenna Study Guide

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by Jane Yolen
About 7 pages (2,153 words)
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InWhite Jenna, Yolen addresses post1960s questions of shifts in gender roles through a fantasy world she developed in an earlier novel, Sister Light, Sister Dark (1988). Central to the novel is the quest of the character Jenna, a highly gifted teenager living in a patriarchal Garunian age and presumed to be a prophesied goddess-savior. During attacks by men against women called the Gender Wars, Jenna.....

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White Jenna from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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