Children's Literature and Culture

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1. Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation

   Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness

   By Layla AbdelRahim

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation,...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

   By Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   First published in 2002...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Diana Wynne Jones

   The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature

   By Farah Mendlesohn

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   First published in 2005...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

   Edited by Carrie Hintz, Elaine Ostry

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800

   By Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   First published in 2006...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature

   By Lydia Kokkola

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   First published in 2003...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Twice-Told Children's Tales

   The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults

   Edited by Betty Greenway

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   First published in 2005...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Gothic in Children's Literature

   Haunting the Borders

   Edited by Anna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

   By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction

    The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity

    By Robyn McCallum

    Edited by Jack D. Zipes

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge