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.
A Past Without Shadow: Constructing the Past in German Books for Children
1st Edition
By Zohar Shavit
May 30, 2014
A Past Without Shadow examines 50 years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. The horrors of the Third Reich are systematically screened and filtered, allowing the darker, bleaker parts of history to escape illumination. Here ...
LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Janice M. Alberghene, Beverly Lyon Clark
May 30, 2014
Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of ...
Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra L. Beckett
May 30, 2014
Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults is a collection of essays on twentieth-century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeal to both audiences. This collection of fourteen essays by scholars from eight countries ...
Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code
1st Edition
By M. Daphne Kutzer
October 23, 2013
Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre, examining all facets...
Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults
1st Edition
Edited
By Betty Greenway
October 23, 2013
It is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives--Graham Greene The luminous books of our childhood will remain the luminous books of our lives.--Joyce Carol Oates Writers, as they often attest, are deeply influenced by their childhood reading. Salman Rushdie, for example, ...
Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre for All Ages
1st Edition
By Sandra L. Beckett
September 20, 2013
This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks — including artists’ books, wordless picturebooks, and celebrity picturebooks — that appeal to readers of all ages. Focusing on ...
Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995
1st Edition
By Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy
September 03, 2013
While white racism has global dimensions, it has an unshakeable lease on life in South African political organizations and its educational system. Donnarae MacCann and Yulisa Maddy here provide a thorough and provocative analysis of South African children's literature during the key decade around ...
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Robyn McCallum, Jack D. Zipes
July 17, 2013
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about ...
The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
May 01, 2013
This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature ...
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature
1st Edition
By John Stephens, Robyn McCallum
April 03, 2013
What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories ...
Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire
1st Edition
By Troy Boone
January 11, 2013
This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about ...
Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature
1st Edition
By Karen Sands-O'Connor
October 10, 2012
Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black ...