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The Lion and the Unicorn
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ISSN (Print) 0147-2593 - ISSN (Online) 1080-6563
Published by Project MUSE

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Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by
Christy Williams (review)
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  Abstract: Although the fairy-tale genre is often identified as children's literature, it was generally not aimed at a younger audience until the mid-twentieth century. Its malleable nature, the ability to adapt to different audiences, cultures, and time periods, is a key component to the genre's longevity. Accordingly, Christy Williams suggests that instead of distinguishing between classic fairy tales and modern retellings, it is far more productive to approach fairy tales as an interconnected genre. As Williams points out, "The genre has always been about newness, variation, and retelling" (6). And it is this fundamental and persistent reworking of the genre that is at the center of Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media by Jennifer Burek Pierce (review)
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  Abstract: Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media is an important book. It explores the emergence, growth, and undertakings of the vast, cross-media reading community (estimated membership is in the millions) known as the Nerdfighters that formed around the efforts of John and Hank Green in 2007 through YouTube and then extended into online forums, charitable events, a podcast, and other multimedia ventures with the dual purposes of trying to do awesome things and fighting against "world suck." More significantly, it grapples with ways to think about and discuss the phenomenon of online reader collectives, drawing attention to a significant, we-are-living-through-it shift in the history of reading. The challenges inherent in ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Robin and the Making of American Adolescence by Lauren O'Connor (review)
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  Abstract: In the second chapter of her book, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence, Lauren O'Connor writes that Robin from the Batman comics "was a product of America's fascination with the newly defined adolescent, and he was created to both reflect and entice superhero comics' largest and most impressionable demographic—young people" (32). This encapsulates the argument of O'Connor's book: that Robin functions as an idealized representation of teenagers. O'Connor argues that Robin changes over time, but always in ways that support status quo constructions of young people's role in society with regards to dominant narratives of class, race, and gender. As a sidekick, Robin's primary function is to support Batman's ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Teaching Young Adult Literature ed. by Mike Cadden, Karen Coats, and
Roberta Seelinger Trites (review)
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  Abstract: The title of this collection suggests a fairly straightforward topic: Teaching Young Adult Literature. A quick perusal of its table of contents, however, reveals just how much breadth and variety must be accounted for in any attempt to provide an overview of pedagogical approaches to young adult literature. As S. Patrice Jones notes in her chapter, "The Case for Teaching Young Adult Literature Everywhere," YA literature does not "belong" to a single discipline but rather crosses the ostensible boundaries between literary studies, education, and library science (among others). Certainly, the disciplinary backgrounds of the authors do influence some of the strategies and text selections in the more than thirty ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Introduction
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  Abstract: In this issue of The Lion and Unicorn, we explore representations of nation, national identity, and what it means to be human in literature for young readers.Sonia Sabnis' article, "Chinese Immigrants and the Changing Terms of Exclusion in Beverly Cleary's Emily's Runaway Imagination and Fifteen," enriches our understanding of the historical context of Chinese immigrants to the western United States in the twentieth century. By carefully attending to seemingly minor episodes and characters, Sabnis explores Cleary's treatment of Chinese people both as objects of curiosity and as irreducibly other, unassimilable into the American communities she describes. Sabnis links Asian immigration policy, such as the Chinese ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Chinese Immigrants and the Changing Terms of Exclusion in Beverly Cleary's
Emily's Runaway Imagination and Fifteen
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  Abstract: Despite her enduring popularity, scholarship on Beverly Cleary's books mostly focuses on elementary education and literacy.1 Cleary's characters and the socioeconomic setting of her books, particularly the Ramona series and Dear Mr. Henshaw, have contributed to the formation of countless young Americans not only in terms of reading but also in terms of resilience and sensitivity to social, educational, and familial pressures of various kinds. In this essay I look at a small but neglected aspect of Cleary's fictional world, her representation of Chinese immigrants, and the changes in American society that undergird the different depictions in Emily's Runaway Imagination and Fifteen. Although the Chinese immigrants ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Bridges to Self: Material Culture and Emotional Transnationalism in Grace
Lin's Picture Books
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  Abstract: Asian-Americans have experienced a long, but often silenced, history of otherness. The rhetoric that has evolved against the Chinese during the Covid-19 pandemic has broken this silence. From March 19, 2020, to March 31, 2021, the number of hate incidents against Asians in the United States grew from 3,795 to 6,603 in one year (Jeung 1). The pandemic has made this population visible and has given them a voice. However, children's author Grace Lin has spent over two decades giving Chinese-American children a voice and a presence on the literary American landscape. In a 2016 interview with Mia Nakaji Monnier on NBC News, Grace Lin speaks about the Asian American child's identity struggle. She claims that during book ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Borderland Ethics, Migrant Personhood, and the Critique of State
Sovereignty in Jairo Buitrago's Two White Rabbits and José Manuel
Matéo's Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker
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  Abstract: In "Toward a Borderland Ethics," Pablo Ramirez argues that fiction that blends the United States and Latin America, self and other, and citizen and noncitizen demonstrates a "borderlands ethical stance" that produces "new unauthorized truths and relations outside the law and beyond national borders" (49). However, within those national borders and inside the jurisdiction of the law, the belief that only legal residents are rights-bearers means that to be "illegal" is to have no legitimate public voice or presence; imposing its own logic, the law's rigid categories make some histories mute (50). Furthermore, because nationalism encourages us to situate ourselves in a determinate manner, the state makes people's ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Confusing Boundaries in The Lovebus: Constructing Consent in Dutch YA
Fiction
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  Abstract: After World War II, the German-inspired pedagogical foundations of Dutch children's literature, in which the world and childhood were presented as idealized and perfect, also known as the idealized children's world, or Heile Kinderwelt, came to a devastating end (Joosen and Vloeberghs 111–12). Children's literature became obligated to demystify life and to represent the gritty realities of the world and growing up. Although there is still a place for fantasy and idealized versions of reality within specific genres, like the fairy tale or highly popular gnome-stories, these genres moved to the periphery of the children's literature field as idealized visions of the world became outdated, and the psychological youth ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
"Handling" Wonder: Tools, Tasks, and the Enchantment of Materialistic
Engagement in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy
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  Abstract: The centrality of objects to alternative universes can be most palpably surmised from the plethora of titles feeding the fantasy canon. From J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara to Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand, countless fantasies ceaselessly devote special value to nonhuman materiality in thriving, sentient terms. The genre's mobilization of things often takes place in synchronization with human work, the overall effect of which produces a sense of enchantment both within the text as well as in the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
I Can Read It All By Myself: The Beginner Books Story by Paul V. Allen
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  Abstract: The hardest part of writing the review of I Can Read It All By Myself: The Beginner Books Story by Paul V. Allen is in figuring out how to categorize the book. Published by the University Press of Mississippi, the book is categorized as children's and young adult literature studies, popular culture, literature, and biography/memoir. However, this combination of styles means the book escapes easy definition.Inside, the book is divided into two sections. Part 1: The Beginner Books Story is roughly one-third of the total book. This section is perhaps the more traditional of the two parts and would most easily fit on a shelf alongside other literary studies texts, especially those with a popular culture or children's ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-11-04T00:00:00-05:00