Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing her previous work in the linguistic turn, Trites employs methodologies from the material turn to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. She interrogates how material feminism can expand our understanding of maturation and...
Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Se...
Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise Yamamoto
Often referred to as the model minority, Asian American children and adolescents feel pressured to perform academically and be disinterested in sports, with the exception of martial arts. Boys are often stereotyped as physically unattractive nerds and girls as petite and beautiful. Many Americans remain unaware of the diversity of ethnicities and races the term Asian...
Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Ma...
Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. Reading in the Dark fills a gap in criticism devoted to children's popular culture by concentrating on horror, an often neglected genre. These scholars explore the intersection between horror, popular culture, and children's cultural productions.
Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. Reading in the Dark fills a gap in criticism devoted...
Presents twelve essays that explore this posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analysing recent works for young adults.
Presents twelve essays that explore this posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism,...
Offers a critical examination of children's and YA comics. The anthology is divided into five sections - structure and narration; transmedia; pedagogy; gender and sexuality; and identity - that reflect crucial issues and recurring topics in comics scholarship during the twenty-first century.
Offers a critical examination of children's and YA comics. The anthology is divided into five sections - structure and narration; transmedia; pedagogy...
