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.
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Feuerstein, Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo
May 21, 2019
Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping ...
Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Lissa Paul, Rosemary R. Johnston, Emma Short
May 21, 2019
Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of ...
Contemporary British Children's Fiction and Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
By Fiona McCulloch
May 21, 2019
This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization’s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical,...
Fictions of Integration: American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
1st Edition
By Naomi Lesley
May 21, 2019
This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less...
Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Tricia Clasen, Holly Hassel
May 21, 2019
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic...
Interactive Books: Playful Media before Pop-Ups
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
May 21, 2019
Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history as interactive, narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words, images and movable components, they cross the borders between ...
More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People
1st Edition
Edited
By Perry Nodelman, Naomi Hamer, Mavis Reimer
May 21, 2019
This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and about young people. When Perry Nodelman’s Words about Pictures: the Narrative...
New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable Lands
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Jackson
May 21, 2019
Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters ...
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption
1st Edition
By Macarena Garcia-Gonzalez
May 21, 2019
The first of its kind, this volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent children’s books that address the subject. Of all European countries, Spain is the nation where immigration and transnational adoption have increased most ...
Prizing Children's Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Kidd, Joseph Thomas Jr.
May 21, 2019
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of ...
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola
May 21, 2019
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The ...
Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature: Engaging Difference and Identity
1st Edition
By Rachel Dean-Ruzicka
May 21, 2019
What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust. Author Rachel Dean-Ruzicka argues for a progressive ...