![]() ![]() The teenage girl stricken with catastrophic memory loss is an allegory of something. Now the obvious question is: Why? Why amnesia? Why now? I think it’s safe to say that this literary trend doesn’t represent an actual epidemic of teenage amnesiacs. Indeed, lists are plenty (see Dobrez & Rutan and Lipinski), but critical explorations are few: Alison Waller’s “Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction” (2016) is the lone exception.* Some bloggers have noticed this trend, and there is an extensive Goodreads list about YA novels and amnesia. Jennifer Armentrout, Don’t Look Back (2014) Natalie Richards, Six Months Later (2013) ![]() Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (2012) Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox (2008) Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2007) ![]() Typically, the protagonist’s amnesia is related to some kind of trauma, an accident of some kind-anything from falling on the steps and hitting your head to a devastating car crash. Much twenty-first-century young adult literature written by women and featuring teenage girls has taken up the theme of memory loss. ![]()
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