Navigating Children's Literature Through Controversy

Global and Transnational Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68272-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 104, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 8 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children’s and YA literature in contemporary culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jamróz-Stolarska, Elzbieta

Swietlicki, Mateusz

Zarzycka, Agata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Controversy and Children’s Literature: Introduction

Agata Zarzycka, Mateusz Swietlicki and Elzbieta Jamróz-Stolarska

Part 1 (G)Local Controversies

1 Controversy on the Children’s Book Market in Poland and Its Cultural and Social Background

Bozena Hojka and Elzbieta Jamróz-Stolarska

2 Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Topics and Polish Young Adult Literature

Monika Wozniak

3 Being Controversial in Scandinavia: An Iconotextual Analysis of Selected Norwegian and Danish Picturebooks

Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska

4 Political vs. Personal: Gender-Role Formation in the Works of Ukrainian Female Children’s Writers in the 1930s

Snizhana Zhygun

5 The Controversial Truth: Postmemory and the Great Terror in Yulia Yakovleva’s The Raven’s Children and Eugene Yelchin’s Breaking Stalin’s Nose

Sylwia Kaminska-Maciag

6 Controversies over the Holocaust and the Greek Civil War: Painful Memories in Greek Children’s Books

Meni Kanatsouli

7 Trauma Representation and Aestheticization in North American Young Adult Holocaust Literature

Talia Crockett

Part 2 Transcultural Controversies

8 Boys’ Friendship or Something More? Re-Examining Janusz Korczak’s King Matt the First and Its English Translations

Joanna Dybiec-Gajer

9 Annotated Editions as a Misappropriation of the Author’s Voice and of Children’s Reading: Some Polish Editions of Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault

Barbara Kaczynska

10 Beguiling Bygones and Relapses into Barbarism: Censoring Old Children’s Literature in the Netherlands

Charlotte van Bergen

11 Controversies of Authentic Adolescent Realism in Isabel Quintero’s Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014) and Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It (2015)

Jennifer Mooney

12 “I’m Not a Teapot”: The Controversy of (Post)Humanity in Selected Novels by Neal Shusrerman

Anna Bugajska

13 “Behind the Bars, No World”: Brecht Evens’ Panther as an Ironic Response to Children’s Literature

Katarzyna Smyczynska

14 Two-Dad Families in Children’s Nonfiction Picturebooks

Angela Yannicopoulou

15 The Children’s Literature Scholar as a Two-Headed Creature (Lofting and Damrosch)

Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel

Index of Persons

Über Autor(innen)

Elzbieta Jamróz-Stolarska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies (University of Wroclaw). She has published widely on the children’s book market, design and illustration. Her major recent work is Serie literackie dla dzieci i mlodziezy w Polsce 1945–1989. Produkcja wydawnicza i uksztaltowanie edytorskie [Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature Series in Poland 1945-1989: Book Market and Design] (Warszawa, 2014).

Mateusz Swietlicki is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wroclaw’s Institute of English Studies and Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture. His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine.

Agata Zarzycka is an Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies (University of Wroclaw). She has recently published A Goth Reflection: Self-Fashioning and Popular Culture (Wroclaw, 2019). Her research interests include literary studies focused on speculative fiction, gothic studies, game studies focused on video games and role-playing games, fan studies, subcultural and cultural studies.

The editors are co-founders and members of The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wroclaw.