The Politics of Text and Image in Children's Culture

Contemporary Eastern Europe and Beyond
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-16565-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

This edited volume proposes a new perspective on how children's literature interacts with politics: its chapters focus not only on politics and literature or politics in literature, but primarily on the politics of text and image. Following Jacques Rancière's philosophy, the collection understands The Politics of Text and Image in Children's Culture as an aesthetic (re)configuration of world perception that shapes both the individual subjectivity of young readers/viewers and their sense of belonging to different communities. The volume's focus on Eastern Europe reflects the contemporary political realities of the region. It embraces new texts from Belarusian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian, independent Russian, and post-Soviet Russophone children's and young adult (YA) literature. The collection combines this unique focus on Eastern Europe with a broad, systematic, and global perspective. It includes chapters on transnational trends in contemporary children's literature and on the productive dialogue taking place between Eastern European, Central Asian, and North American cultural spaces. This volume brings together established scholars from Austria, Croatia, Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, and the United States. It is intended primarily for scholars of children's literature and culture, educational studies, and Eastern European and Slavic studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balina, Marina

Efimova, Svetlana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Svetlana Efimova is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Media Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Her research encompasses Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian literature and culture, with particular focus on the interplay between aesthetics and politics, contemporary children’s literature, intermediality, transcultural writing, and generative artificial intelligence.

Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor Emerita and Professor of Russian Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. The focus of her scholarship is on historical and theoretical aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian children’s literature and culture.