A Companion to Children's Literature
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Overview
A collection of international, up-to-date, and diverse perspectives on children's literary criticism
A Companion to Children's Literature offers students and scholars studying children's literature, education, and youth librarianship an incisive and expansive collection of essays that discuss key debates within children's literature criticism. The thirty-four works included demonstrate a diverse array of perspectives from around the world, introduce emerging scholars to the field of children's literature criticism, and meaningfully contribute to the scholarly conversation.
The essays selected by the editors present a view of children's literature that encompasses poetry, fiction, folklore, nonfiction, dramatic stage and screen performances, picturebooks, and interactive and digital media. They range from historical overviews to of-the-moment critical theory about children’s books from across the globe.
A Companion to Children's Literature explores some of the earliest works in children's literature, key developments in the genre from the 20th century, and the latest trends and texts in children's information books, postmodern fairytales, theatre, plays, and more. This collection also discusses methods for reading children's literature, from social justice critiques of popular stories to Black critical theory in the context of children's literary analysis.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781119038221 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 06/21/2022 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Pages: | 496 |
Product dimensions: | 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.22(d) |
About the Author
Deborah Stevenson is a retired Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and Director of the Center for Children's Books.
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw was Professor of Education, Literature and Literacies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has authored or co-edited several books, including Representing Africa in Children's Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors xIntroduction xviiKaren Coats, Deborah Stevenson, and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Part I: Early Works 1
1 Juvenile Nonfiction before the Golden Age of Anglo-American Children's Literature 3Ivy Linton Stabell
2 The Beginnings of Fiction for Children 14Claudia Nelson
3 Folklore in Children's Literature 26Debra Mitts-Smith
4 The Victorian Picturebook 39Hannah Field
5 The Child-Centered Universe of Nineteenth-Century Children's Nonfiction 58Elizabeth Massa Hoiem
Part II: Twentieth-Century Developments 71
6 Developments in Fiction for Children 73Mary Jeanette Moran
7 Developments of Picturebooks 84Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
8 Walt Disney and the Fairy Tale 96Paula T. Connolly
9 Stay Tuned: A Political History of Saturday Morning Cartoons 105Peter C. Kunze
10 Live-Action Films for Children 118Kathy Merlock Jackson
11 BreakBeat and the New Auditory Avant-garde for Children! (Or, That New-fangled Noise the Kids Are All Going On About) 129Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
12 Children's Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean 144Sujin Huggins
Part III: Contemporary Trends and Texts 155
13 Children's Information Books: Initiatives and Trends 157Elizabeth Bush
14 Contemporary Trends in Fiction for Children 168Thaddeus Andracki
15 Contemporary Poetry for Children: Toward Diversity, Complexity, and Innovation 179Rachel Conrad
16 Picturebook Futures 193Evelyn Arizpe and Emma McGilp
17 Postmodern Fairy Tales 207Cherie Allan
18 Theatre and Playwriting for Young Audiences 218Nicole B. Adkins
19 The Portrayal of Girlhoods in Graphic Narratives for Children 232Elizabeth Marshall
20 Playing Children's Literature: Games in and the Gamification of Books for Kids 242Gretchen Papazian
21 Digital Children's Literature: Current Understandings and Future Directions 258Dani Kachorsky
Part IV: Ways of Reading 271
22 Critical Multiculturalism and Children's Literature: Trends and Possibilities 273Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
23 Cultural Diversity and Social Justice: Readings from the South 287Macarena García González
24 Black Critical Theory in Children's Literary Analysis: Why It Matters 299Roberta Price Gardner
25 Critical Discourse Studies and the Scholarship of Children's Literature 314Rebecca Rogers and Doris Villarreal
26 Disability 330Elizabeth A. Wheeler
27 Growing Up Together: Children's Literature and Women's Studies 341Susan Larkin
28 Read, Write, Play, Review: Young Children's Connected Reading Communities 352Marianne Martens
29 Posthumanism 364Zoe Jaques
30 Narrative Theory and Children's Literature 376Mike Cadden
31 Animal Studies 390Rachel Falconer
32 Trauma Studies 403Adrienne Kertzer
33 Censorship and Children's Literature 414Emily J.M. Knox
34 The Commodification, "Diversification," and Walliams-fication of the British Children's Book Market 426Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
Index 441