Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship internalised racism. By systematically examining the issue of internalised racism and its detrimental psychological effects, particularly towards the young and vulnerable, this book defamiliarises the very racial issue that otherwise has become normalised in American racial discourse, reaffirming the relevance of race, racism, and racialisation in contemporary America. Through...
Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that ...
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children's literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children's literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children's books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on...
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children's literature in collections. Examining...
This book examines a critical period in British children's publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK.
This book examines a critical period in British children's publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audience...
This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters.
This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on di...
This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing dependence upon technology in public and private life. Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature considers how the imaginary forms of activism depicted in literature can prompt young people to shape their...
This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave exp...
This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children's literature through their representations of working-class life and culture.
This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children's literature through their representations...
