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Américas Award
Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas
Inbunden, 2015
1547 kr
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First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as …
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2016
1556 kr
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Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though …
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
Häftad, 2017
711 kr
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Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though …
Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg
Av Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson
Häftad, 2018
711 kr
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To say that children matter in Steven Spielberg's films is an understatement. Think of the possessed Stevie in Something Evil (TV), Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express, the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters,Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T, the war-damaged Jim in Empire of the …
Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity
Disciplining the Child
Av Joanne Faulkner, Magdalena Zolkos
Häftad, 2019
528 kr
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This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methodologies of critical childhood studies. It argues that while the figure of the child has been traditionally located at the peripheries of academic …
Misfit Children
An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings
Inbunden, 2016
1307 kr
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Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that …
Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature
Häftad, 2018
607 kr
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The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels. Collectively, this volume’s contributions …
Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives
Animalizing the Native, 1830-1930
Inbunden, 2017
1466 kr
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The genesis of the history of British colonization in India is often traced to traders, merchants, and the formation of the British East India Company. While this is indisputable, what is ignored is the creation and perpetual fueling of the steady stream of British officers into the Indian economy …
Tweencom Girls
Gender and Adolescence in Disney and Nickelodeon Sitcoms
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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Tweencom Girls analyzes the different ways character tropes are portrayed in media targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds, particularly female characters, over the last twenty-five years. The book focuses particularly on sitcoms produced by the cable giants Disney Channel and Nickelodeon because of …
Child in World Cinema
Av Debbie Olson
Inbunden, 2018
2100 kr
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This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege …
Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965
Av Ann Kordas
Häftad, 2021
640 kr
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This book examines the history of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from the middle of the nineteenth century until the beginning of the 1960s. The book analyzes both adult perceptions of female adolescent sexuality and the experiences of female adolescents themselves. It examines …
Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide
Häftad, 2022
591 kr
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If there is one trend in children’s and YA literature that seems to be enjoying a steady rise in popularity, it is the expansion of the YA dystopian genre. While the genre has been lauded for its potential to expand horizons, promote critical thinking, and foster social awareness and activism, it …
Feeling Child
Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film
Av Philippa Page, Inela Selimovic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1385 kr
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The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film compiles a series of essays focusing on the figure of the child within the specific context of the “affective turn” in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America. This edited volume looks …
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Av Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark
Häftad, 2021
640 kr
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Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this …
Sidekick Comes of Age
How Young Adult Literature is Shifting the Sidekick Paradigm
Häftad, 2023
526 kr
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Literary sidekicks like Dr. Watson and Robin the Boy Wonder have not been the singular subject of a significant critical study—until now. Using young adult literature (YA) to study the sidekick reveals new and exciting ways to understand these kinds of characters and this kind of literature. YA has …
Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
Walking in Other Worlds
Inbunden, 2021
1547 kr
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Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s …
Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
Walking in Other Worlds
Häftad, 2022
591 kr
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Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s …
Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
Travel, Technology, Time
Av Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark
Häftad, 2021
640 kr
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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this …
Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children’s Books, Films, and Toys
Av Donna Varga
Inbunden, 2024
1204 kr
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The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children’s Books, Films, and Toys examines how the portrayal of animals as physically distorted, behaviorally depraved, and intellectually defective serves to justify their debasement, violation, and destruction in materials directed toward young …
Growing up in Latin America
Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture
Av Marco Ramírez Rojas, Pilar Osorio Lora
Inbunden, 2022
1275 kr
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Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical …
Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television
Av Debbie Olson
Inbunden, 2023
1134 kr
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This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a …
Cold War Children's Television
Philadelphia as a Case Study
Inbunden, 2023
1063 kr
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Cold War Children's Television: Philadelphia as a Case Study examines a culturally significant phenomenon of the Cold War—the locally produced hosted children's show. The Cold War era and the coming of age of commercial television were entwined not only chronologically but societally. The era of …
Childhood and Innocence in American Culture
Heartaches and Nightmares
Inbunden, 2023
1223 kr
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This collection argues that the romanticized conflation of “childhood” and “innocence” in American culture has been on a steady decline at least since the 1960s--largely due to postmodern critiques of overarching narratives involving both “the child” and the “innocence” of childhood. Additionally, …
New Directions in Childhood Studies
Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century
Inbunden, 2024
1385 kr
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New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American …
Beyond Nancy Drew
U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Av LuElla D'Amico, Emily Hamilton-Honey
Inbunden, 2024
1547 kr
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This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the …
Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
Av Debbie Olson
Inbunden, 2020
1790 kr
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This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) …
School Gun Violence in YA Literature
Representing Environments, Motives, and Impacts
Inbunden, 2022
1223 kr
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Since Columbine, the topic of school shootings has become ever more prevalent in the media, in research, and in fiction. This book provides analyses of several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence (and those who perpetrate it) while …
Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny
Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine
Inbunden, 2021
1204 kr
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This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage super/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and sexual violence that has led to a …
Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny
Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine
Häftad, 2022
514 kr
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This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage super/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and sexual violence that has led to a …
