Abstract:According to Jodi Melamed, "[l]iterary studies has been a foremost cultural technology for producing, transmitting, and implanting official antiracist knowledges" (15). Melamed identifies liberal multiculturalism, which advocates "social solidarity" and "affirm[s] a positive cultural pluralism" as one way these antiracisms are transmitted (Melamed 35). What happens when official antiracisms break down? In a post-Trump age, racist attitudes have risen, sanctioned by the nation's highest political power. I identify children's picture books as an important cultural site of liberal multiculturalism in an age where official antiracisms are collapsing and cannot be relied upon to maintain liberal social structures. I will be examining several picture books published since 2018, as they emphasize the importance of pluralism as an inherent aspect of American national identity.
{"title":"All Are Welcome: Picture Books and Liberal Multiculturalism Post Trump","authors":"S. Falkenberg","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:According to Jodi Melamed, \"[l]iterary studies has been a foremost cultural technology for producing, transmitting, and implanting official antiracist knowledges\" (15). Melamed identifies liberal multiculturalism, which advocates \"social solidarity\" and \"affirm[s] a positive cultural pluralism\" as one way these antiracisms are transmitted (Melamed 35). What happens when official antiracisms break down? In a post-Trump age, racist attitudes have risen, sanctioned by the nation's highest political power. I identify children's picture books as an important cultural site of liberal multiculturalism in an age where official antiracisms are collapsing and cannot be relied upon to maintain liberal social structures. I will be examining several picture books published since 2018, as they emphasize the importance of pluralism as an inherent aspect of American national identity.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43456301","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:Catherynne M. Valente breaks up and remakes the Orientalist map of Anglo-American fantasy through a process of aggressive revision that she calls "mythpunk." Like her predecessors, Valente borrows images from Middle Eastern folklore, but her mixing and re-remixing of global cultural traditions is value neutral. She does not use images from any one region of the world to represent cultural superiority or inferiority, or to demarcate opposing sides in a battle between good and evil. Her mythpunk approach to fantasy rejects the binary thinking that structures much of C.S. Lewis' influential Chronicles of Narnia—but it at the same time, it engages deeply with the element of cultural syncretism that Lewis himself also includes.
{"title":"\"Infinite Others\": Mythpunk and Middle-Eastern Folklore in Catherynne M. Valente's Young Adult Novels","authors":"T. Michals, Fizza Fatima","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Catherynne M. Valente breaks up and remakes the Orientalist map of Anglo-American fantasy through a process of aggressive revision that she calls \"mythpunk.\" Like her predecessors, Valente borrows images from Middle Eastern folklore, but her mixing and re-remixing of global cultural traditions is value neutral. She does not use images from any one region of the world to represent cultural superiority or inferiority, or to demarcate opposing sides in a battle between good and evil. Her mythpunk approach to fantasy rejects the binary thinking that structures much of C.S. Lewis' influential Chronicles of Narnia—but it at the same time, it engages deeply with the element of cultural syncretism that Lewis himself also includes.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49287600","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":"Little Women at 150 ed. by Daniel Shealy (review)","authors":"Marlowe Daly-Galeano","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43386177","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":"Transformative Agency and the Pursuit of Justice in Mildred Taylor's Logan Family Series","authors":"E. Newcomb","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45548237","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 Finally, Cadden’s own narrative voice offers abundant humor. He is simply a very funny man, as when he notes, with a droll Hobbesian allusion, that a reader might identify with a character as being short, “but find nothing else in that character to connect to, perhaps because the character is nasty and brutish as well. . . .” Cadden welcomes disagreement with his readings of particular characters (I myself think he is somewhat unfair to Junie B. and Ramona), but hopes that readers will “find the framework, the idea of rhetorical modulation, useful.” At Arm’s Length presents its central device of the dial of character modulation so persuasively and enjoyably that readers will find their fingers twitching to spin it themselves into a host of fruitful discussions of how we understand character in children’s and young adult literature.
{"title":"The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (review)","authors":"Tharini Viswanath","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0052","url":null,"abstract":"Book Reviews Finally, Cadden’s own narrative voice offers abundant humor. He is simply a very funny man, as when he notes, with a droll Hobbesian allusion, that a reader might identify with a character as being short, “but find nothing else in that character to connect to, perhaps because the character is nasty and brutish as well. . . .” Cadden welcomes disagreement with his readings of particular characters (I myself think he is somewhat unfair to Junie B. and Ramona), but hopes that readers will “find the framework, the idea of rhetorical modulation, useful.” At Arm’s Length presents its central device of the dial of character modulation so persuasively and enjoyably that readers will find their fingers twitching to spin it themselves into a host of fruitful discussions of how we understand character in children’s and young adult literature.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44589658","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":"Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood by Diane Waggoner (review)","authors":"Katherine Wakely-Mulroney","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42177663","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":"Equity, Altruism, and the Voice of the Child in An Episode of Sparrows: Perennial Issues of Youth Justice and Child Protection","authors":"A. Diver","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47730072","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":"Teddy, The Little Refugee Mouse by Dorothy Burroughes, and: The Magic Herb by Dorothy Burroughes (review)","authors":"Jan Susina","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44168381","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 cult to map onto characters of African descent” and because vampire stories are often about taboo sexual desires), this chapter highlights the significant differences between how the Black, American Bonnie Bennet and her White, Irish book counterpart, Bonnie McCullough are treated (113). By tracing TV Bonnie’s dark fantastic cycle, Thomas demonstrates how “the imperatives of commercial teen television and fan responses limit the liberating possibilities of characters of color” (127). The final sections of the chapter discuss the following: how social media activism raises awareness against injustice; the increased number of Black girls and women advocating for better representation in mainstream speculative fiction; and fan fiction as a way to rewrite the stories of marginalized characters. The final chapter in this monograph, “Hermione Is Black,” is most compelling as it moves from literary criticism to audiences’ responses to the lack of representation—or even misrepresentation—in popular literature. Recounting her experiences as an avid reader of the Harry Potter novels and as a writer of Harry Potter fan fiction, Thomas discusses the contemporary audiences’ use of social media to construct meanings from texts independent of or contrary to authorial intent. She goes on to offer the practice of “restorying”—which describes how young readers “reimagine the very stories themselves” as they “imagine themselves into stories”—time and place, identity, and across modes as some ways of decolonizing the imagination (159, emphasis original). To say that The Dark Fantastic does important work in the fields of critical race theory, young adult literature, and media studies would be an understatement; its impact is both dynamic and far-reaching. One reason this book is such as an important resource for decentering whiteness in academic settings and beyond is because it uses critical counterstorytelling to bring historically marginalized voices to the forefront. Another reason is that Thomas’s incorporation of autoethnography and reader responses increases the text’s accessibility (and teachability) so that readers—regardless of their backgrounds—might learn new ways of seeing.
{"title":"Animals, Museum Culture and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties by Laurence Talairach (review)","authors":"C. Tarr","doi":"10.1353/chq.2021.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2021.0053","url":null,"abstract":"Book Reviews cult to map onto characters of African descent” and because vampire stories are often about taboo sexual desires), this chapter highlights the significant differences between how the Black, American Bonnie Bennet and her White, Irish book counterpart, Bonnie McCullough are treated (113). By tracing TV Bonnie’s dark fantastic cycle, Thomas demonstrates how “the imperatives of commercial teen television and fan responses limit the liberating possibilities of characters of color” (127). The final sections of the chapter discuss the following: how social media activism raises awareness against injustice; the increased number of Black girls and women advocating for better representation in mainstream speculative fiction; and fan fiction as a way to rewrite the stories of marginalized characters. The final chapter in this monograph, “Hermione Is Black,” is most compelling as it moves from literary criticism to audiences’ responses to the lack of representation—or even misrepresentation—in popular literature. Recounting her experiences as an avid reader of the Harry Potter novels and as a writer of Harry Potter fan fiction, Thomas discusses the contemporary audiences’ use of social media to construct meanings from texts independent of or contrary to authorial intent. She goes on to offer the practice of “restorying”—which describes how young readers “reimagine the very stories themselves” as they “imagine themselves into stories”—time and place, identity, and across modes as some ways of decolonizing the imagination (159, emphasis original). To say that The Dark Fantastic does important work in the fields of critical race theory, young adult literature, and media studies would be an understatement; its impact is both dynamic and far-reaching. One reason this book is such as an important resource for decentering whiteness in academic settings and beyond is because it uses critical counterstorytelling to bring historically marginalized voices to the forefront. Another reason is that Thomas’s incorporation of autoethnography and reader responses increases the text’s accessibility (and teachability) so that readers—regardless of their backgrounds—might learn new ways of seeing.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43419994","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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