Alt kid lit : what children's literature might be /
"How do we think about children's and young adult literature? Children's literature is often defined through audience, so what happens when children are drawn to and claim genres not built expressly "for" them? To what extent do canonical formations tend to overwrite or obsc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2024.
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| Series: | Children's Literature Association series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason
- Kid lit from beyond the grave: spiritualism, child mediums, and the haunting problem of child agency / Victoria Ford Smith
- Singing a "Sea Island Song": Alice Childress's responsive Black theater / Katharine Capshaw
- The seductions of "Little Red Riding Hood": on the thresholds of children's drawings / Jakob Rosendal
- Snanger danger: SS/HG fanfiction, kinship, and an affinity space model of children's and young adult literature / Amanda K. Allen
- Zine ecoactivism and pedagogies of hope in "World War 3 Illustrated" #46 / Brianna Anderson
- Emergency children's literature: some observations on pandemic picture books / Gabriel Duckels
- The case of "Jonny's" genre: an interview with Joshua Whitehead / Joshua Whitehead and Derritt Mason
- YA literature, "Plus Ultra": a case study of the Shōnen anime "My Hero Academia" / Brandon Murakami
- From melodrama to kitschy romance: alt kid media in India and Pakistan / Tehmina Pirzada
- "Bizarre Creatures" and the fans who love them: "The Dark Crystal" as alternative children's culture / Paige Gray
- Video games and young people's digital cultures: a panel discussion / Kristopher Alexander, Negin Dahya, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Catherine Burwell, and Derritt Mason
- The alt within: queerness, psychoanalysis, and children's literature as enigmatic signifier / Natasha Hurley
- "We're Americans too!": contingencies and contradictions in picture books about Japanese American incarceration / Gabrielle Atwood Halko
- Retomando el Día de los Muertos: death, life, and Latinx epistemology in children's literature / Cristina Rhodes
- Reimagining the "Alternative": sustaining representation of indigenous people and people of color through speculative fiction in "The Marrow Thieves" and "Mañanaland" / Erica Law-Montes and Cristina Rivera
- Silkpunk and agender childhoods in Noen Yang's "Tensorate" universe / Shuyin Yu
- Alt publishing for young people: an interview with Vivek Shraya / Vivek Shraya and Derritt Mason
- Contributors
- Index.
