The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032103594 / Twarda / 2023 / 600 str.

Opis

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of the print, digital, and electronic texts for children.

Spis treści

Introduction

PART I

Concepts and tools

Section introduction

1 Theory

Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

2 Poetics and Pedagogy

Karen Coats

3 Ethics and Historical Perspectives

Amanda K. Allen

4 Children’s Literary Geography

Björn Sundmark and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang

5 The Monster at the End of This Book:

Posthumanism and New Materialism in the Scholarship of Children’s Literature

Megan L. Musgrave

6 Digital Humanities and Children’s Literature

Deanna Stover

7 Research with Young Readers: Participatory Approaches in Children’s Literature Studies

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

PART II

Media and genres

Section introduction

8 Picturebooks

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

9 Books for Beginners

Annette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec

10 Magazines

Kristine Moruzi

11 Comics for Children Across Cultures

Joseph Michael Sommers

12 Children’s Fiction: The Possibilities of Reality and Imagination

Deborah Stevenson

13 Nonfiction

Giorgia Grilli

14 Children’s Poetry

Michael Joseph

15 Theatre and Drama: Global Perspectives

Manon van de Water

16 Film

Christine Lötscher

17 Television

Debbie Olson

18 Playful Possibilities: The Rights of the Reader in a Digital Age

Angela Colvert

PART III

Identities

Section introduction

19 Age

Vanessa Joosen

20 Gender

Mia Österlund and Åsa Warnqvist

21 Nation and Citizenship

Sara Van den Bossche

22 Religion and Children’s Literature

Gabriele von Glasenapp

23 Whatever Common People Do: Social Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Children’s Fiction

Kimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen

24 Race and Ethnicity in Children’s Literature

Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera

25 LGBTQ+ Discourses in Eastern and Central European Children’s Literature

Mateusz Świetlicki

26 Disability and Children’s Literature

Kimura Toshio and Yoshida Junko

PART IV

Border crossings

Section introduction

27 Translation

Emer O’Sullivan

28 Retranslation

Virginie Douglas

29 Adaptation

Anja Müller

30 Fairy Tales and Circulation: A Case Study in Poland

Weronika Kostecka

31 Children’s Literature and Transnationalism

Clare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith

32 Transcultural Comparison as Method:

Korean and Hebrew Children’s Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century

Dafna Zur and Rachel Feldman

33 Marketing and Franchising

Naomi Hamer

34 Children’s Literature Websites and Fandom

Sara K. Day and Carrie Sickmann

PART V

Institutions

Section introduction

35 Book Publishing and the British Sphere of Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Courtney Weikle-Mills

36 Children’s Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach

Emily Bruce

37 Contemporary Asian Book Publishing

Shih-Wen Sue Chen

38 From Canon-Making to Participatory Prizing: Children’s Book and Media Awards

Ramona Caponegro and Kenneth B. Kidd

39 Children’s Literature in Schools

Etti Gordon Ginzburg

40 Libraries

Margaret Mackey

41 Book Clubs

Julie Fette and Anne Morey

42 Promoting Children’s Reading Internationally

Valerie Coghlan

43 Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children’s Literature

Andrew Zalot

O autorze

Claudia Nelson is Professor Emerita of English at Texas A&M University, USA. In addition to having coedited multiple essay collections, she is author or coauthor of six monographs, most recently Topologies of the Classical World in Children’s Literature: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals, coauthored with Anne Morey (2019). Her book Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850–1929 won the Children’s Literature Association’s award for the best scholarly book of 2003.

Elisabeth Wesseling is Professor of Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity and at Maastricht University, Netherlands. She has edited two volumes on children’s media (The Child Savage, 1890–2010: From Comics to Games (2016); Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia: Books, Toys and Games (2017) and co-edited special journal issues for Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, International Research in Children’s Literature, and BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, in addition to publishing numerous research articles.

Andrea Mei-Ying Wu is Director of the Chinese Language Center and Professor of Children’s Lterature and Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She has published widely on children’s literature and culture and is the author of a Chinese monograph, Discourses of Subject, Gender, Place, and (Post)modern Childhood in Postwar Taiwanese Juvenile Fiction (2017). Her recent publication includes a co-edited Chinese monograph, Border-Crossings, Coming-of-Age, and In-Between: Contemporary Trends in Children’s Literature Research (2022).