Jackson New Directions in Children’s Gothic

Debatable Lands
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-44423-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes, when new monsters have come into play, when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children’s Gothic, and when childhood itself and children’s literature as a genre can no longer be thought of as an uncontested space apart from the debates and power struggles of an adult domain. We look in detail at series such as The Mortal Instruments, Twilight, Chaos Walking, The Power of Five, Skulduggery Pleasant, and Cirque du Freak; at novels about witches and novels about changelings; at the Gothic in China, Japan and Oceania; and at authors including Celia Rees, Frances Hardinge, Alan Garner and Laini Taylor amongst many others. At a time when the energies and anxieties of children’s novels can barely be contained anymore within the genre of children’s literature, spilling over into YA and adult literature, we need to pay attention. Weird things are happening and they matter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents



Introduction

- ‘Do Panic. They’re Coming:’ Remaking the Weird in contemporary children’s fiction

Chloe Buckley

- Cuckoo Songs: The Changeling as Hero

Geoffrey Miles

- ‘These are troubling, confusing times’: Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak as Post-9/11 Gothic

Philip Serrato

- Figuring the Witch.

David Punter

- Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese Child

You Chengcheng

- Girls in Lace Dresses: The Intersections of Gothic in Japanese Youth Fiction and Fashion

Emerald L. King and Lucy Fraser

- The Gothic in Oceania

Erin Mercer

- ‘The Gothic is part of history, just as history is part of the Gothic’: Gothicising History and Historicising the Gothic in Celia Rees' Young Adult Fiction

Catherine Spooner

- Adolescent Angels and Demons: The Religious Imagination in Young Adult Gothic Literature

Rebecca Wigginton

- ‘Mind to Mind’: The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and Chaos Walking Trilogy

Alexandra Valint

- ‘THIS HILL IS STILL DANGEROUS’: Alan Garner’s Weirdstone Trilogy – A Hauntology

Timothy Jones

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.