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Abstract: Children and young people from across Ukraine are being killed, physically and psychologically maimed, bereaved, orphaned, evacuated, displaced, forced into existence underground, separated from loved ones—perhaps most commonly their male relatives who must stay to fight under martial law—rendered translators and spokespeople for those who cannot express their experiences or needs in the languages of major news corporations, and made carers for injured or vulnerable relatives, as I write. They are also at risk of being trafficked by those who would exploit the chaos for profit (Eglinton). Suddenly, the items in our last issue on refugee children’s experiences during the First World War seem less distant, less ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Jewell Parker Rhodes’s middle-grade novel Bayou Magic (2015) was born out of one of the most horrendous environmental catastrophes in US history. As Rhodes relates in a note to readers, she had just completed Ninth Ward (2010), a middle-grade novel about the climate-driven disaster that was Hurricane Katrina, when another calamity struck Louisiana. On 20 April 2010, following a series of human and corporate failures, the BP-controlled Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a blowout as it drilled on the Macondo Prospect off the coast of Louisiana. The resulting explosion killed eleven workers. The rig was engulfed in flames and the ruptured well began spewing oil. For eighty-seven days, approximately 4.4 million ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: To add to the growing body of literature that addresses various aspects of The Hunger Games trilogy, this article examines how a small group of self-identified adolescent girls are interpreting romance and what some researchers call the anti-feminist ending of the series that is, according to Sarah Thaller, full of “ patriarchal values and gender restraints.” Rebecca Hill notes that there “are few academic studies of readers of [The Hunger Games]” (7), expressing a need for reader-response scholarship focused on this book and film series. This study aims to address this gap.Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy is one of the best-selling young adult (YA) fiction series in the past decade and is, according to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: How can I, as a Cree-Métis person situated in my own particular context, celebrate and contribute to Cree intellectual traditions so often neglected in conventional literary study' Implicit to this question is the assertion that Cree intellectual traditions exist and continue to flourish.We need to look at the past to teach others our stories and then look forward, together, with knowledge and healing.The son of a white mother of British descent, Beverly Eyers, and Donald Alexander Robertson from the Norway House Cree Nation, David Alexander Robertson reveals in his memoir Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory that he has been preoccupied with the question of what it means to be Cree since he was in his ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In recent years, scholars and consumers alike have become increasingly critical of the lack of diversity in mainstream entertainment media. The grassroots organization We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) has been at the forefront of these international conversations within the context of children’s and young adult literature, advocating for greater representations of “diverse experiences” relating to cultural identity, disability, sexuality, and gender (We Need Diverse Books). Despite the value of WNDB’s contributions and other movements, the US-centric ideals, goals, and expectations that dominate international discourse about inclusion in children’s and young adult literature are not wholly applicable to other cultural ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Swampy Cree and Red River Métis children’s author and illustrator Julie Flett began her literary career in 2004 when she illustrated The Moccasins, written by Ktunaxa First Nation author Earl Einarson. Having illustrated for many Indigenous authors, Flett has since begun to author and illustrate her own children’s books, notably Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: L’alfabet di Michif/Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet, published in 2010 and for which she received the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize and was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature. More recently, Flett received the prestigious TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for Birdsong. Here, I ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920–1984) fait partie des auteurs classiques de la littérature jeunesse. Mon bel oranger [O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima], notamment, a rencontré dans le monde lusophone et en France un immense succès et a été lu par des générations d’élèves jusqu’à aujourd’hui, en plus d’avoir été adapté à plusieurs reprises au cinéma1. En outre, si l’œuvre de Vasconcelos est variée et que l’on y trouve aussi, par exemple, plusieurs récits concernant les Autochtones et la condition indigène, ce sont essentiellement ses titres de littérature jeunesse qui ont été traduits, en France comme ailleurs, ce qui confirme la place privilégiée que Vasconcelos occupe dans ce champ. Il n’est pourtant pas uniquement un ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Playscripts present the vision of the playwright, while simultaneously opening spaces for multiple voices to tell stories their own ways. Since characters in a playscript are meant to be embodied, they immediately invite interpretation. And since scripts rarely, if ever, answer all the questions a reader, actor, director, or educator may have, they encourage complex ways of listening and having conversations. Selfie by Christine Quintana, A Bear Awake in Winter by Ali Joy Richardson, and Winky & Stinky by Curtis Peeteetuce are all recently published scripts that engage with some similar issues: consent, agency, voice and choice, bodily autonomy, gendered expectations, and controlling your own narrative. Selfie ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Owl House’s first episode features Luz Noceda, the protagonist, going into a magical prison—called the Conformitorium, where people are locked up for being different—and finding one of the inmates is a young woman who has been arrested for writing fan fiction about food: “I write fics of food falling in love. I like food, I like love. Just let me write about it!” (season 1, episode 1 10:50–10:55). The episode culminates in Luz and Eda freeing the prisoners, and these so-called outcasts come to the aid of Eda and King against Warden Wrath. This moment encapsulates the focus of Owl House, which the first season lays out and the second season develops: weirdos have to stick together. An animated series aimed at ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In this keenly argued, well-intentioned but not always satisfying book, Maria Sachiko Cecire offers a socio-historical study of the origins and politics of twentieth-century children’s fantasy literature in English. She devotes five chapters to the beginnings and proliferation of the genre in the Anglo-American world with a sharp eye toward fantasy’s cultural ramifications. The book primarily focuses on six writers whom Cecire identifies as the “Oxford School of Children’s Fantasy Writers”: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Kevin Crossley-Holland, and Philip Pullman. Cecire’s contention is that the group was heavily influenced by its scholarship at the University of Oxford and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-07-10T00:00:00-05:00
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