The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

Herausgegeben:Nelson, Claudia; Wesseling, Elisabeth; Wu, Andrea Mei-Ying

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children's literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations.

Offering five distinct sections, this volume:
Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children's literatureDescribes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing childrenConsiders the production, distribution, and valuing of children's books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of contentMaps how children's texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author's identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed "other," and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voiceExplores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children's literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children's literature
Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Literature Companions
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 570
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1210g
• ISBN-13: 9781032103594
• ISBN-10: 1032103590
• Artikelnr.: 68474529

Autorenporträt

Claudia Nelson is Professor Emerita of English at Texas A&M University, USA. Elisabeth Wesseling is Professor of Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity and at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Andrea Mei-Ying Wu is Director of the Chinese Language Center and Professor of Children's Literature and Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

PART I

Concepts and tools

Section introduction

1 Theory



Karín Lesnik-Oberstein



2 Poetics and Pedagogy



Karen Coats



3 Ethics and Historical Perspectives



Amanda K. Allen



4 Children's Literary Geography



Björn Sundmark and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang



5 The Monster at the End of This Book:

Posthumanism and New Materialism in the Scholarship of Children's Literature



Megan L. Musgrave



6 Digital Humanities and Children's Literature



Deanna Stover



7 Research with Young Readers: Participatory Approaches in Children's Literature Studies



Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak



PART II

Media and genres

Section introduction

8 Picturebooks



Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer



9 Books for Beginners



Annette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec

10 Magazines



Kristine Moruzi



11 Comics for Children Across Cultures



Joseph Michael Sommers



12 Children's Fiction: The Possibilities of Reality and Imagination



Deborah Stevenson



13 Nonfiction



Giorgia Grilli



14 Children's Poetry



Michael Joseph



15 Theatre and Drama: Global Perspectives



Manon van de Water



16 Film



Christine Lötscher



17 Television



Debbie Olson



18 Playful Possibilities: The Rights of the Reader in a Digital Age



Angela Colvert



PART III

Identities

Section introduction

19 Age



Vanessa Joosen



20 Gender



Mia Österlund and Åsa Warnqvist



21 Nation and Citizenship



Sara Van den Bossche



22 Religion and Children's Literature



Gabriele von Glasenapp



23 Whatever Common People Do: Social Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Children's Fiction



Kimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen

24 Race and Ethnicity in Children's Literature



Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera



25 LGBTQ+ Discourses in Eastern and Central European Children's Literature



Mateusz Swietlicki



26 Disability and Children's Literature



Kimura Toshio and Yoshida Junko



PART IV

Border crossings

Section introduction

27 Translation



Emer O'Sullivan



28 Retranslation



Virginie Douglas



29 Adaptation



Anja Müller



30 Fairy Tales and Circulation: A Case Study in Poland



Weronika Kostecka



31 Children's Literature and Transnationalism



Clare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith

32 Transcultural Comparison as Method:

Korean and Hebrew Children's Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century



Dafna Zur and Rachel Feldman



33 Marketing and Franchising



Naomi Hamer



34 Children's Literature Websites and Fandom



Sara K. Day and Carrie Sickmann



PART V

Institutions

Section introduction

35 Book Publishing and the British Sphere of Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



Courtney Weikle-Mills



36 Children's Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach



Emily Bruce

37 Contemporary Asian Book Publishing



Shih-Wen Sue Chen



38 From Canon-Making to Participatory Prizing: Children's Book and Media Awards



Ramona Caponegro and Kenneth B. Kidd



39 Children's Literature in Schools



Etti Gordon Ginzburg



40 Libraries



Margaret Mackey



41 Book Clubs



Julie Fette and Anne Morey



42 Promoting Children's Reading Internationally



Valerie Coghlan



43 Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children's Literature



Andrew Zalot