The Big Smallness: Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children�s Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367875039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str.

Michelle Ann Abate

Opis

This book explores the growing cadre of contemporary amateur-authored, independently-published, niche-market picture books. These texts embody a shift in how narratives for young people are being creatively conceived, materially constructed, and socially consumed in the US. Abate shows how these titles enter into ongoing partisan conflicts, whil

Spis treści

Introduction.  It’s A Small World After All: Specialty Subjects, Micro Markets, and Customized Culture  1. The Straight Dope: It’s Just a Plant, Marijuana Use, and the Question of Prohibition Politics  2. Nip/Tuck Truth: My Beautiful Mommy, the Medicalization of Motherhood, and the Harmful Condition of Childhood Innocence  3. Good Things Come in Small Packages: Little Zizi, Schoolyard Bullying, and the Sexualization of Boys  4. Will Power: Maggie Goes on a Diet, the Fully Autonomous Child, and the Hazards of Unsupervised Adults  5. Boys Gone Wild: Me Tarzan, You Jane, the Crusade to "Cure" Prehomosexual Children, and the New Face of the Ex-Gay Movement in the United States  Epilogue. Change and Continuity: Niche-Market Picture Books and the Negotiation of Artistic Freedom, Iconoclastic Ideology, and Consumer Capitalism

O autorze

Michelle Ann Abate is Associate Professor of Literature for Children and Young Adults at The Ohio State University, USA.