Children's Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
Founding Editor and Series Editor 1994-2011: Jack Zipes
Series Editor, 2011-2018: Philip Nel
Founded by Jack Zipes in 1994, Children's Literature and Culture is the longest-running series devoted to the study of children’s literature and culture from a national and international perspective. Dedicated to promoting original research in children’s literature and children’s culture, in 2011 the series expanded its focus to include childhood studies, and it seeks to explore the legal, historical, and philosophical conditions of different childhoods. An advocate for scholarship from around the globe, the series recognizes innovation and encourages interdisciplinarity. Children's Literature and Culture offers cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections considering topics such as gender, race, picturebooks, childhood, nation, religion, technology, and many others. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches
1st Edition
By Hans-Heino Ewers
March 02, 2012
In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children’s literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children’s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of scientific terminology for international use, ...
Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books
1st Edition
By M. Daphne Kutzer
December 12, 2011
Empire's Children looks at works at by Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Hugh Lofting, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Ransome for the ways these writers consciously and unconsciously used the metaphors of empire in their writing for children....
The Family in English Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Ann Alston
October 05, 2011
From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in The Family in English Children’...
Representing Africa in Children's Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing
1st Edition
By Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
September 19, 2011
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young ...
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Galway
September 14, 2011
As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression. Seen as a tool for both ...
Children's Fiction about 9/11: Ethnic, National and Heroic Identities
1st Edition
By Jo Lampert
August 25, 2011
In this pioneering and timely book, Lampert examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children’s literature about the attacks of September 11, 2001. Looking at examples including picture books, young adult novels, and a selection of DC Comics, Lampert ...
Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Neal A. Lester
August 16, 2011
Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s literature from the margins to the forefront of literary discourse. Looking at a variety of topics, ...
Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Kara K. Keeling, Scott T. Pollard
August 15, 2011
Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky, Jeffrey Pilcher and Massimo Montanari, who use food as a fundamental ...
Into the Closet: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film
1st Edition
By Victoria Flanagan
August 15, 2011
Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s ...
Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa: A Study of Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
By Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae MacCann
August 15, 2011
In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of ...
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Jan Susina
August 15, 2011
In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children’s literature. From a study of Carroll’s juvenilia to contemporary multimedia adaptations of Wonderland, Susina shows how the Alice books fit into the tradition of literary fairy ...
The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Thiel
July 12, 2011
The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of "Victorian values" in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and ...