Navigating Children's Literature Through Controversy : : Global and Transnational Perspectives / / edited by Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska, Mateusz Świetlicki, Agata Zarzycka.

• TeilnehmendeR: Jamróz-Stolarska, Elżbieta,; Świetlicki, Mateusz,; Zarzycka, Agata,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series ; v. 104.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

"This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children's and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children's and YA literature in contemporary culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Controversy and Children's Literature: Introduction -- Chapter 1 Controversy on the Children's Book Market in Poland and Its Cultural and Social Background -- Chapter 2 Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Topics and Polish Young Adult Literature -- Chapter 3 Being Controversial in Scandinavia: An Iconotextual Analysis of Selected Norwegian and Danish Picturebooks -- Chapter 4 Political vs. Personal: Gender-Role Formation in the Works of Ukrainian Female Children's Writers in the 1930s -- Chapter 5 The Controversial Truth: Postmemory and the Great Terror in Yulia Yakovleva's The Raven's Children and Eugene Yelchin's Breaking Stalin's Nose -- Chapter 6 Controversies over the Holocaust and the Greek Civil War: Painful Memories in Greek Children's Books -- Chapter 7 Trauma Representation and Aestheticization in North American Young Adult Holocaust Literature -- Chapter 8 Boys' Friendship or Something More? Re-Examining Janusz Korczak's King Matt the First and Its English Translations -- Chapter 9 Annotated Editions as a Misappropriation of the Author's Voice and of Children's Reading: Some Polish Editions of Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault -- Chapter 10 Beguiling Bygones and Relapses into Barbarism: Censoring Old Children's Literature in the Netherlands -- Chapter 11 Controversies of Authentic Adolescent Realism in Isabel Quintero's Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014) and Louise O'Neill's Asking For It (2015) -- Chapter 12 "I'm Not a Teapot": The Controversy of (Post)Humanity in Selected Novels by Neal Shusterman -- Chapter 13 "Behind the Bars, No World": Brecht Evens' Panther as an Ironic Response to Children's Literature -- Chapter 14 Two-Dad Families in Children's Nonfiction Picturebooks -- Chapter 15 The Children's Literature Scholar as a Two-Headed Creature (Lofting and Damrosch) -- Index of Persons.