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.
Children’s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg
1st Edition
By Zoe Jaques
February 05, 2018
An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children’s fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular ...
Picturebooks: Representation and Narration
1st Edition
Edited
By Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
February 05, 2018
This volume discusses the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of modern picturebooks from different countries, such as Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA. The overarching issue concerns the mutual relationship between representation and narration by means of the...
Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film: Global Theories and Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By John Stephens
May 24, 2017
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme pivot on ...
Rediscoveries in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Suzanne Rahn
August 26, 2016
First Published in 1995. Dedicated to furthering original research in children's literature and culture, the Children's Literature and Culture series will include monographs on individual authors and illustrators, historical examinations of different periods, literary analyses of genres, and ...
The Presence of the Past: Memory, Heritage and Childhood in Post-War Britain
1st Edition
By Valerie Krips
February 29, 2016
The presence of the Past studies the interaction of heritage and fiction written for children over a 40 year period in Britain, exploring a range of works for children from The Tale of Peter Rabbit to I Spy....
Entranced by Story: Brain, Tale and Teller, from Infancy to Old Age
1st Edition
By Hugh Crago
January 29, 2016
We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences. This book focuses on the experiences that good stories generate: feelings of purposeful involvement, elevation, temporary loss ...
Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Cambodia to Darfur
1st Edition
By Jane Gangi
December 17, 2015
This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young. Many of the authors visited accurately and authentically portray the ...
National Character in South African English Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Elwyn Jenkins
July 16, 2015
This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what ...
Colonial India in Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Supriya Goswami
May 21, 2015
Colonial India in Children’s Literature is the first book-length study to explore the intersections of children’s literature and defining historical moments in colonial India. Engaging with important theoretical and critical literature that deals with colonialism, hegemony, and marginalization in ...
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers
1st Edition
Edited
By Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, Carrie Hintz
May 21, 2015
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book Award From the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing a new generation of readers to the pleasures...
Narrating Africa: George Henty and the Fiction of Empire
1st Edition
By Mawuena Kossi Logan
February 27, 2015
Narrating Africa: George Henty and the Fiction of Empire offers a critique of colonialist discourse and focuses on George Henty's novels as a prototype of the literature that emerged with the rise of British imperialism, in an attempt to assess the role of nineteenth-century literature both in ...
Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child: Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child
1st Edition
By Amberyl Malkovich
November 10, 2014
This book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the ‘ideal’ Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public. Children’s Literature was one of the developing areas for publishers...