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