Prizing Children's Literature

The Cultural Politics of Children's Book Awards
Herausgeber: Kidd, Kenneth; Thomas Jr, Joseph

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first scholarly volume to analyze Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, it offers original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the US. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural capital. This volume will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social history, book history, sociology, education, library and information science, and children's literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138650541
• ISBN-10: 1138650544
• Artikelnr.: 54237241

Autorenporträt

Kenneth B. Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. Joseph T. Thomas, Jr, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, USA where he also serves as Director of the National Center for the Study of Children's Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
A Prize-Losing Introduction
Kenneth B. Kidd & Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
Chapter I: Prizing National and Transnational: Australian Texts in the
Printz Award
Clare Bradford
Chapter II: Prizing the Unrecognized: Systems of Value, Visibility, and the
First World in International and Translated Children's Texts
Abbie Ventura
Chapter III: The Guys Are the Prize: Adolescent Fiction, Masculinity, and
the Political Unconscious of Australian Book Awards
Erica Hateley
Chapter IV: How Award-Winning Children's Nonfiction Complicates Stereotypes
Joe Sutliff Sanders, Katlyn M. Avritt, Kynsey M. Creel, & Charlie C. Lynn
Chapter V: The Last Bastion of Aesthetics? Formalism and the Rhetoric of
Excellence
in Children's Literary Awards
Robert Bittner & Michelle Superle
Chapter VI: The Still Almost All-White World of Children's Literature:
Theory, Practice, and Identity-Based Children's Book Awards
June Cummins
Chapter VII: The Pura Belpré Medal: The Latino/a Child in America, the
"Need" for Diversity, and Name-branding Latinidad
Marilisa Jiménez Garcia
Chapter VIII: Peter's Legacy: The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
Ramona Caponegro
Chapter IX: Race and the Prizing of Children's Literature in Canada:
Spotlighting Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards
Barbara McNeil
Chapter X: Finding Nominations: Children's Films at the Academy Awards
Peter C. Kunze
Chapter XI: Prizing Popularity: How the Blockbuster Book Has Reshaped
Children's Literature
Rebekah Fitzsimmons
Chapter XII: The Archive Award, or the Case of de Grummond's Gold
Emily Murphy
Chapter XIII: Apologia
Michael Joseph & Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
Chapter XIV: Prizing in the Children's Literature Association
Kenneth B. Kidd
Contributors
Works Cited