Any of us Fairytale and Fantasy aficionados know how well these tales burn into our hearts and provide us with countless hours of daydreaming material, but it is the potential of greatness that these stories open up for our often times limited waking life. Storybook worlds, as much as they are for our own nostalgia and connection to a natural world, serve as a money-making machine for industries that prey upon the scarcity of these literary spaces. With this book being released during a pandemic era, the impeccable timing allows for readers who have grown comfortable within the four walls of their home to travel through worlds that have been inaccessible during lockdowns and quarantines. The book allows for a strong sense of living vicariously through the eyes of the authors in the collections and takes readers through a journey of reflection and adventure that has simply not been an option for many of us post COVID-19. There is something for every reader in this collection, and in many ways some of the essays in this collection highlight the risk of these beautiful worlds being made into a media entity so far removed from the stories that taught empathy for all life, meaningful contemplation, and a deep respect for the natural world around us.
{"title":"Storybook Worlds Made Real: Essays on the Places Inspired by Children's Narratives ed. by Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West (review)","authors":"J. Young","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"Any of us Fairytale and Fantasy aficionados know how well these tales burn into our hearts and provide us with countless hours of daydreaming material, but it is the potential of greatness that these stories open up for our often times limited waking life. Storybook worlds, as much as they are for our own nostalgia and connection to a natural world, serve as a money-making machine for industries that prey upon the scarcity of these literary spaces. With this book being released during a pandemic era, the impeccable timing allows for readers who have grown comfortable within the four walls of their home to travel through worlds that have been inaccessible during lockdowns and quarantines. The book allows for a strong sense of living vicariously through the eyes of the authors in the collections and takes readers through a journey of reflection and adventure that has simply not been an option for many of us post COVID-19. There is something for every reader in this collection, and in many ways some of the essays in this collection highlight the risk of these beautiful worlds being made into a media entity so far removed from the stories that taught empathy for all life, meaningful contemplation, and a deep respect for the natural world around us.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42841518","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":"Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children by Emily Midkiff (review)","authors":"Karen Sands-O’Connor","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42886646","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:Young adult science fiction holds in tension the ideological position that adolescents are posthuman and a socializing mandate to enable adolescent maturation into normative, humanist adulthood. Frequently, this tension is resolved through the rejection of technology, but recent young adult science fiction interrogates and challenges traditional maturation. Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Illuminae Files series demonstrates how hierarchical social, legal, and political structures categorize and control adolescents to encourage their traditional maturation, but it also suggests the empowerment and agency possible through posthumanist alternatives, such as the cyborgian hybridity of an adolescent and artificial intelligence.
{"title":"Adolescence and Artificial Intelligence: Posthumanism and Maturation in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Illuminae Files","authors":"G. A. Williams","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Young adult science fiction holds in tension the ideological position that adolescents are posthuman and a socializing mandate to enable adolescent maturation into normative, humanist adulthood. Frequently, this tension is resolved through the rejection of technology, but recent young adult science fiction interrogates and challenges traditional maturation. Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Illuminae Files series demonstrates how hierarchical social, legal, and political structures categorize and control adolescents to encourage their traditional maturation, but it also suggests the empowerment and agency possible through posthumanist alternatives, such as the cyborgian hybridity of an adolescent and artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45851832","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:This article presents a Deleuzian reconfiguration of how we read power in literature as it pertains to young peoples. "Minor lit" is introduced as a theoretical framework to highlight the often overlooked power of children and adolescent subjects, a decidedly minor power with arguably major political implications. Critical readings of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Bluest Eye offer familiar yet challenging perspectives on the unique minor position as well as the major power structures of children's—and canonical—literature.
{"title":"Toward a Minor Lit: Reading Power in Douglass, Caulfield, and Breedlove","authors":"Wesley Jacques","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article presents a Deleuzian reconfiguration of how we read power in literature as it pertains to young peoples. \"Minor lit\" is introduced as a theoretical framework to highlight the often overlooked power of children and adolescent subjects, a decidedly minor power with arguably major political implications. Critical readings of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Bluest Eye offer familiar yet challenging perspectives on the unique minor position as well as the major power structures of children's—and canonical—literature.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45519202","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":"Mediation and Children's Reading: Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present ed. by Anne Marie Hagen (review)","authors":"Margaret Mackey","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43520410","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:This article highlights the role of Latin American artistic heroes in contemporary Latinx picture books as a way of fostering a sense of transnational solidarity between artists and writers such as Pablo Neruda, José Martí, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Diego Rivera and diasporic Latinx young readers in the US. Our article underscores how these creative heroes position art and writing as vehicles for resistance, thus showcasing how creative acts can promote social justice. Young readers, in these ways, are entreated to utilize their own creative gifts to forge a better path for themselves and their communities. These forms of transnational solidarity, we believe, allow young readers to imagine a hemisphere held together by a common cause toward justice and equity for all.
{"title":"Latin American Heroes in Latinx Picture Books: Toward Transnational Solidarity and Creative Resistance","authors":"Regan Postma-Montaño, Jesus Montaño","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article highlights the role of Latin American artistic heroes in contemporary Latinx picture books as a way of fostering a sense of transnational solidarity between artists and writers such as Pablo Neruda, José Martí, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Diego Rivera and diasporic Latinx young readers in the US. Our article underscores how these creative heroes position art and writing as vehicles for resistance, thus showcasing how creative acts can promote social justice. Young readers, in these ways, are entreated to utilize their own creative gifts to forge a better path for themselves and their communities. These forms of transnational solidarity, we believe, allow young readers to imagine a hemisphere held together by a common cause toward justice and equity for all.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42205749","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 ostracism” (152) in order to convince kids who think they like fantasy to also like science fiction. Equipping Space Cadets argues that children do not need to be convinced to like science fiction—they like it already, as her case study of library borrowing suggests. It is, for Midkiff, the adults that need to be convinced. To accomplish this intervention in adult mindsets, Midkiff promotes a definition of science that allows for speculation and the fantastic, but which at the same time demands accuracy in human representation. These dictates will help reluctant adult book buyers, including some librarians and teachers, to feel more comfortable in the (widened) world of science fiction. They will not, however, end the debate over the literary definition of science fiction.
{"title":"The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism by David Aitchison (review)","authors":"Valerie Longo","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Children’s Literature Association Quarterly ostracism” (152) in order to convince kids who think they like fantasy to also like science fiction. Equipping Space Cadets argues that children do not need to be convinced to like science fiction—they like it already, as her case study of library borrowing suggests. It is, for Midkiff, the adults that need to be convinced. To accomplish this intervention in adult mindsets, Midkiff promotes a definition of science that allows for speculation and the fantastic, but which at the same time demands accuracy in human representation. These dictates will help reluctant adult book buyers, including some librarians and teachers, to feel more comfortable in the (widened) world of science fiction. They will not, however, end the debate over the literary definition of science fiction.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44426687","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:Criticism of Linda Sue Park's Prairie Lotus (2020) has focused on this text as a rewriting of Little House on the Prairie, particularly the idea that this work—which stars an Asian American heroine—corrects the more troubling aspects of Little House. This essay instead focuses on the sexual violence that seeps into and concludes Park's work. I examine this alongside a 19th century text by Oliver Optic that also features sexual violence in the American West; in so doing I reframe Prairie Lotus as a text worth examining as a reflection of the history of sexualized violence against Asian American women and girls.
摘要：对Linda Sue Park的《草原莲花》（2020）的批评集中在这部文本上，认为它是对《草原上的小房子》的改写，尤其是认为这部由亚裔女主角主演的作品纠正了《小房子》中更令人不安的方面。这篇文章转而关注渗透到朴作品中的性暴力，并对其进行了总结。我将其与奥利弗·奥西奇（Oliver Optic）的一篇19世纪的文本一起研究，该文本也以美国西部的性暴力为特色；在这样做的过程中，我将《草原莲花》重新定义为一部值得审视的文本，它反映了针对亚裔美国妇女和女孩的性暴力历史。
{"title":"Planted in the Shadows: Centering Sexual Violence in Prairie Lotus, Little House on the Prairie, and Oliver Optic's Hope and Have","authors":"Abigail S. Woodward","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Criticism of Linda Sue Park's Prairie Lotus (2020) has focused on this text as a rewriting of Little House on the Prairie, particularly the idea that this work—which stars an Asian American heroine—corrects the more troubling aspects of Little House. This essay instead focuses on the sexual violence that seeps into and concludes Park's work. I examine this alongside a 19th century text by Oliver Optic that also features sexual violence in the American West; in so doing I reframe Prairie Lotus as a text worth examining as a reflection of the history of sexualized violence against Asian American women and girls.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45449404","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":"The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children ed. by Marina Balina and Serguei Oushakine (review)","authors":"M. Swift","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43301812","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":"The Child's Philosopher ed. by Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty (review)","authors":"C. Mills","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43712185","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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