{"title":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture by Derritt Mason (review)","authors":"Jonathan Alexander","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47257154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading Under Lenin and Stalin by Megan Swift (review)","authors":"J. Mcgavran","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44903695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children’s Literature Collection ed. by Carolyn J. Brown, Ellen Hunter Ruffin and Eric Tribunella (review)","authors":"A. Carpenter","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47143967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Children’s Literature Association Quarterly ondly, the success of webtoons would make the point that webcomics and their fandoms are truly a transnational phenomenon. In class, I expect I will ask my students to reflect upon and fill this gap by writing notional new “chapters” of their own that apply Kleefeld’s concerns to WEBTOON or Tapas. These criticisms aside, it is hard not to feel grateful for Kleefeld’s work. I was excited to learn of Webcomics, and I’m excited about the prospect of teaching with it. Scholarly treatments of online comics are few and far between, and Kleefeld’s is the only academic book on the topic that I would ask a class full of students to read (and that is in print and fairly affordable). I am reminded of how slow academia can be when it comes to grappling with popular phenomena. Some years ago, I realized that my niece and nephew, by then in their thirties, had been reading webcomics for at least twenty years (I recall them talking about Pete Abrams’s Sluggy Freelance back in the late 1990s). To me, webcomics were still a new and disorienting addition to comics; for too long, I had been deferring my first real engagement with them. To my niece and nephew, though, webcomics were already as natural as breathing—an accessible, established, everyday thing. It took me many years to begin catching up. We need more books like Kleefeld’s that acknowledge webcomics’ ubiquity and explore their teeming variety and undeniable relevance as art and culture. Webcomics, a concise portal into a dauntingly complex phenomenon, should prove a landmark in the study of comics and of online literacies.
{"title":"Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature by Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard (review)","authors":"Sarah Minslow","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Children’s Literature Association Quarterly ondly, the success of webtoons would make the point that webcomics and their fandoms are truly a transnational phenomenon. In class, I expect I will ask my students to reflect upon and fill this gap by writing notional new “chapters” of their own that apply Kleefeld’s concerns to WEBTOON or Tapas. These criticisms aside, it is hard not to feel grateful for Kleefeld’s work. I was excited to learn of Webcomics, and I’m excited about the prospect of teaching with it. Scholarly treatments of online comics are few and far between, and Kleefeld’s is the only academic book on the topic that I would ask a class full of students to read (and that is in print and fairly affordable). I am reminded of how slow academia can be when it comes to grappling with popular phenomena. Some years ago, I realized that my niece and nephew, by then in their thirties, had been reading webcomics for at least twenty years (I recall them talking about Pete Abrams’s Sluggy Freelance back in the late 1990s). To me, webcomics were still a new and disorienting addition to comics; for too long, I had been deferring my first real engagement with them. To my niece and nephew, though, webcomics were already as natural as breathing—an accessible, established, everyday thing. It took me many years to begin catching up. We need more books like Kleefeld’s that acknowledge webcomics’ ubiquity and explore their teeming variety and undeniable relevance as art and culture. Webcomics, a concise portal into a dauntingly complex phenomenon, should prove a landmark in the study of comics and of online literacies.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/chq.2021.0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46051760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Although Danilo Kiš, the famous Yugoslavian writer, did not write purposefully children’s books, his Early Sorrows (1970) has been classified as both a children’s book and an adults’ book. My analysis of Early Sorrows, a collection of short stories linked by the central character of a little boy, will focus on three levels: the childhood’s memories, for example, the pivotal role of Kiš’s relationship to his father and, by extension, to his Jewishness. The second is to examine it within the framework of autobiographical writing. The third line of investigation involves the self-image of the child narrator. My final hypothesis is that Early Sorrows goes beyond age limits and thus belongs to crossover literature, as it has become known in the 21st century.
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Children’s Literature Association Quarterly she was visiting the University of Connecticut. Drawing on recorded interviews with Travers, Griswold discusses their shared interests in “yoga and Zen and mysticism,” the origins of the nanny, Mary Poppins, and Travers’s disdain for Walt Disney’s film adaption of Mary Poppins. In “Bruno Bettelheim,” Griswold describes Bettelheim’s contradictory behavior when he visited San Diego State University to deliver a lecture on fairy tales. At times, the psychologist seemed to thrive on conflict, intentionally stirring up controversies during a question-and-answer session and berating Griswold for retuning him late to his hotel. At other moments, Bettelheim delivered a brilliant lecture, comforted a distraught bystander, and carefully explained his ideas to graduate students. In a nod to his own general audience, Griswold ultimately praises the accessibility of Bettelheim’s writing: “Bettelheim knew his stuff. His ideas were written for everyday people, but that did not indicate any superficiality. Instead, he was, like Margaret Mead or Paul Goodman, a ‘public scholar’” (46). Several essays focus on the affective power of reading literature, including “Ronald Reagan’s Childhood Reading” which suggests ways in which Reagan’s early reading may have shaped his later political beliefs. My favorite essay in the volume, “Reading Differently After 9/11” focuses on how the events of 9/11 have shaped our readings of children’s classics such as Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit (1902), Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie (1941), and Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon (1947). While expectations of individual readers will certainly shape their responses to Behind Children’s Books, Jerry Griswold’s adventures in the world of children’s literature will undoubtedly inspire thousands of literary banquets.
{"title":"The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature: Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood by Lucy Andrew (review)","authors":"Ashley Johnson","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Children’s Literature Association Quarterly she was visiting the University of Connecticut. Drawing on recorded interviews with Travers, Griswold discusses their shared interests in “yoga and Zen and mysticism,” the origins of the nanny, Mary Poppins, and Travers’s disdain for Walt Disney’s film adaption of Mary Poppins. In “Bruno Bettelheim,” Griswold describes Bettelheim’s contradictory behavior when he visited San Diego State University to deliver a lecture on fairy tales. At times, the psychologist seemed to thrive on conflict, intentionally stirring up controversies during a question-and-answer session and berating Griswold for retuning him late to his hotel. At other moments, Bettelheim delivered a brilliant lecture, comforted a distraught bystander, and carefully explained his ideas to graduate students. In a nod to his own general audience, Griswold ultimately praises the accessibility of Bettelheim’s writing: “Bettelheim knew his stuff. His ideas were written for everyday people, but that did not indicate any superficiality. Instead, he was, like Margaret Mead or Paul Goodman, a ‘public scholar’” (46). Several essays focus on the affective power of reading literature, including “Ronald Reagan’s Childhood Reading” which suggests ways in which Reagan’s early reading may have shaped his later political beliefs. My favorite essay in the volume, “Reading Differently After 9/11” focuses on how the events of 9/11 have shaped our readings of children’s classics such as Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit (1902), Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie (1941), and Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon (1947). While expectations of individual readers will certainly shape their responses to Behind Children’s Books, Jerry Griswold’s adventures in the world of children’s literature will undoubtedly inspire thousands of literary banquets.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/chq.2021.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this article, we examine the distinctions of personhood and identity in David Levithan’s novel Every Day as denoted in the novel’s protagonist, A, a noncorporeal being that inhabits the life and body of a different individual every day. Illustrative of post-postmodernism (McLaughlin, Nealon), the novel posits a central truth to personhood: the truth of our selves lies within individual personal characteristics, rather than socially constructed identity categories. This central truth implies an essentiality to the self, which postmodernists have long refuted. In this way, personhood becomes synonymous with dynamic states of possibilities, disjunctures, and becoming (Deleuze and Guittari).
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Abstract:In this article I explore how Anzaldúa’s “new mestiza consciousness” theory manifests itself in her two children’s books, Friends from the Other Side and Prietita and the Ghost Woman, focusing on three particular elements: a) healing from various forms of oppression represented by the curandera figure; b) reclaiming and rewriting past cultural histories through the refiguring of the legend of La Llorona; and c) creating bridges of solidarity across multiple borders.
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{"title":"Teaching Young Adult Literature ed. by Mike Cadden, Karen Coats and Roberta Seelinger Trites (review)","authors":"Carrie Hintz","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/chq.2021.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45825479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Book Reviews better reading and better thinking, but also enable students to link what they are learning in the classroom to the much larger project and challenge of changing the world. The editors are clear that “covering a [keyword] term’s history and use in the children’s literature of all 196 countries on this planet is well beyond the scope of what any of these essays can accomplish” (xi). The editors state that their goal is “a map with fewer blank spaces—a map that will, like all maps, need to be redrawn as the landscape changes” (xi). The editors also “acknowledge the absence—both on advisory board and among contributors—of Bangladesh, China, Cuba, Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Russia, among many others” (xi). In the new edition of Keywords, there are, however, references to China or Chinese in the essays on “Affect,” “Audience,” “Authenticity,” “Boyhood,” “Children’s Literature,” “Classic,” “Culture,” “Family,” “Fairy Tale,” “Gender, “Identity,” “Multicultural,” “Postmodernism,” “Race,” “Story,” “Trans,” and “Translation.” But the misrepresentation of Chinese children’s literature still occurs now and then. It might be a wise choice to invite Chinese scholars to join the program in drawing the map. The diversity and changes of the landscape of Chinese children’s literature is becoming even more challenging and complicated. Serving such a large number of young people (3.7 billion) in China, Chinese children’s literature deserves more merit and due attention. It is obvious that the second edition includes more examples from regions beyond Anglophone, but examples from the Middle East are still sparse and some specific regions are still under-represented. In my view, only with scholarship from Asia, Africa, and Latin America will it be possible to develop an edition more truly international.
{"title":"Topologies of the Classical World in Children’s Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals by Claudia Nelson and Anne Morey (review)","authors":"Elizabeth L. Hale","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Book Reviews better reading and better thinking, but also enable students to link what they are learning in the classroom to the much larger project and challenge of changing the world. The editors are clear that “covering a [keyword] term’s history and use in the children’s literature of all 196 countries on this planet is well beyond the scope of what any of these essays can accomplish” (xi). The editors state that their goal is “a map with fewer blank spaces—a map that will, like all maps, need to be redrawn as the landscape changes” (xi). The editors also “acknowledge the absence—both on advisory board and among contributors—of Bangladesh, China, Cuba, Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Russia, among many others” (xi). In the new edition of Keywords, there are, however, references to China or Chinese in the essays on “Affect,” “Audience,” “Authenticity,” “Boyhood,” “Children’s Literature,” “Classic,” “Culture,” “Family,” “Fairy Tale,” “Gender, “Identity,” “Multicultural,” “Postmodernism,” “Race,” “Story,” “Trans,” and “Translation.” But the misrepresentation of Chinese children’s literature still occurs now and then. It might be a wise choice to invite Chinese scholars to join the program in drawing the map. The diversity and changes of the landscape of Chinese children’s literature is becoming even more challenging and complicated. Serving such a large number of young people (3.7 billion) in China, Chinese children’s literature deserves more merit and due attention. It is obvious that the second edition includes more examples from regions beyond Anglophone, but examples from the Middle East are still sparse and some specific regions are still under-represented. In my view, only with scholarship from Asia, Africa, and Latin America will it be possible to develop an edition more truly international.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/chq.2021.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42174032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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