Epstein / Chapman International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78527-986-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

What does ‘queer’ have to do with children and young people and, in particular, with literature for them? How are sexualities and gender identities depicted in writing and illustration for younger readers in a variety of languages and cultures? How are queer families and the construction of queer families portrayed? How is this depiction influenced by the way the culture in question views queer identities? What is the connection between LGBTQ+ rights and literature for children and young adults? These are some of the questions addressed in this edited collection. While English-language LGBTQ+ literature for young readers has been and continues to be explored in some depth in academia, this is the first book to compare LGBTQ+ children’s literature from around the world and to connect the literature to greater societal, political, linguistic, historical and cultural concerns. The aim of this book, then, is to explore LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, particularly beyond the English-speaking countries/cultures. This collection brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra, looking at picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. The foci of individual chapters include the representation of sexualities and gender identities, depictions of queer families, censorship, translation of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers, and self-publishing. Ultimately, the book considers what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Epstein, B.J.

Chapman, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction, B. J. Epstein and Elizabeth L. Chapman; Chapter One – BRAZIL Self- Help and Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Themes in Contemporary Brazilian Young Adult Literature, Rosa Maria Hessel Silveira, Luiz Felipe Zago and Daniela Ripoll; Chapter Two – FRANCE We’re Not Here and We’re Not Queer: Bisexual Erasure and Stereotyping in French Young Adult Fiction, Elizabeth L. Chapman; Chapter Three – GERMANY/ AUSTRIA Stuck in the Binary: Heteronormativity and the Binary Conception of Gender in German- Language Trans YA, Katrin Waldhart; Chapter Four – GREENLAND Homo Sapienne: A Mirror of Modern Greenlandic Life, Mette Laustsen; Chapter Five – INDIA Out of the Closet? Exploring the Infoscape of LGBTQ+ Fiction For/ About Youth in India, Bharat Mehra and Chris Barrett; Chapter Six – INDIGENOUS WRITING Un-settling Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous LGBTQ+/ Two- Spirit Literature for Young People, Thaddeus Andracki; Chapter Seven – ITALY LGBTQ Families and Picturebooks: New Perspectives in Italian Children’s Literature, Dalila Forni; Chapter Eight – MULTINATIONAL Heather Has a Donor: 30 Years of International Lesbian- Themed Children’s Picture Books about Donor Insemination, 1989– 2019, Patricia Sarles; Chapter Nine – MULTINATIONAL Morals, Society and Distribution: LGBTQ+ Literature for Young Readers in the Arab World, Anonymous; Chapter Ten – MULTINATIONAL Sameness and Diff erence in Visual Representations of Same-Sex Couples in International Children’s Picture Books, Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Mercedes Zabawa; Chapter Eleven – THE PHILIPPINES Of Fabulous Flowers and Powers: Queer Narratives of/ for the Filipino Child in Philippine Contemporary Children’s Literature, Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno; Chapter Twelve – SLOVENIA Between Literature, Ideology and Pedagogy: LGBTQ+ Fiction for Children and Young Adults in Slovenia, Andrej Zavrl; Chapter Thirteen – SOUTH KOREA Boys Who Wear Dresses: Queer Narrative Strategies in Korean Children’s Literature, Anton Hur; Chapter Fourteen – SPAIN Stories out of the Closet: LGBTQ+ Children’s Picturebooks in Spain, Bernat Cormand; Chapter Fifteen – SWEDEN ‘I’m Sure This Whole Boy Thing is Just a Phase’: Transgender Narratives in Contemporary Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Åsa Warnqvist; Chapter Sixteen – SWEDEN Becoming Versus Being: Nature, Nurture and Stereotypes in Swedish LGB Young Adult Novels, B. J. Epstein; List of Primary Texts; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

B.J. Epstein is a senior lecturer in literature and public engagement at the University of East Anglia. She is also a writer, editor, and Swedish-to-English translator. Elizabeth L. Chapman teaches education studies at Sheffield Hallam University and works for Sheffield libraries and as a freelance translator. Her research interests focus on LGBTQ+ fiction for children and young people.