International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults

Herausgeber: Chapman, Elizabeth; Epstein, B. J.

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9781785279843
• ISBN-10: 178527984X
• Artikelnr.: 61483888

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.