Scholarship and criticism on Francesca Lia Block

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Cadden

• The irony of narration in the young adult novel, Children's Literature Association Quarterly (2009)

Franzak

• The Mirror's New Message? Gender in the Adolescent Postmodern Fairy Tale, Children's Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la (2007)

D. Latham

The cultural work of magical realism in three young adult novels, Children's Literature in Education, (2007)

E. Marshall

• "Girlhood, Sexual Violence, and Agency in Francesca Lia Block", Children (2009)
• Girlhood, Sexual Violence, and Agency in Francesca Lia Block's “Wolf”, Children's Literature in Education (2009)

N. L. Martone

• "Escaping the Ax: Francesca Lia Block's" snow" as a Feminist Revision of the Grimm Brothers' Snow White" (2004)

Suzanne Reid & Brad Hutchinson

• "Lanky Lizards! Francesca Lia Block Is Fun to Read But...: Reading Multicultural Literature in Public Schools.", ALAN Review, v.21, n.3, pp. 60-65 (Spring 1994). "Abstract: Examines recent young adult fiction that models communities where cultural differences are equally valued and which can be said to foster multicultural perspectives. Describes the novels of Francesca Lia Block as exemplary of such initiatives. (HB)"

D. L. Russell

• Young adult fairy tales for the new age: Francesca Lia Block's the rose and the beast, Children's Literature in Education (2002)

Susina

• "The Rebirth of the Postmodern Flaneur: Notes on the Postmodern Landscape of Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat", Marvels & Tales (2002)