Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children’s literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of children’s culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of children’s culture. The places and spaces of children’s literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in children’s literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in children’s and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in children’s literature, media, and culture and contributes to this growing and relevant field by showcasing various scholarly aspects and approaches to children’s literature, and the place of children’s literature in the context of international scholarship.
Edited by:
Željka Flegar,
Jennifer M. Miskec
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781032409498
ISBN 10: 1032409495
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 29 February 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Introduction Section I: Place, Space, and Identity 1. ""Xanadu Hidden in the Heart of Bootle"": Place and Foreignness in The Unforgotten Coat Ben Screech 2. Skiing and Being Swedish: Taking a Cold Look at Winter Picturebooks Björn Sundmark 3. Cows on the Cover: Dairy Queen and Regional Literature Rhonda Brock-Servais 4. John Green’s Peopled Places and Abandoned Spaces Michael J. Martin Section II: Aesthetics of Place 5. Confronting ""Un-London"": Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart Trilogy and the Rejection of Nostalgic Landscapes Heather K. Cyr 6. Room to Imagine? Authoritative Architecture in J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World Catherine Olver 7. A Sleuthing Place: Child Detectives and Their Offices Chris McGee Section III: (Dis)Placement and Mobility 8. ""Girl. Wherever the F*ck You Want"": The Contingent Mobilities of Literary Adolescence Caroline Hamilton-McKenna 9. Whirlpooling Feminist Rage: Gang Rape-Revenge in Foul is Fair and The Nowhere Girls Amber Moore 10. A Town Should Have Twenty-Five People: Harriet M. Welsch’s Small-Town New York City Emma K. McNamara 11. How to Develop a Children’s Culture Study Abroad Program in Three Easy Steps Jennifer M. Miskec Section IV: Place Attachment 12. Making Home: The Queer Ecological Possibilities of Children’s Picturebooks Kathleen Forrester 13. Maralinga – The Aṉangu Story: Country, Multimodality, and Living Space Melanie Duckworth 14. Re-placing Indigenous Land and Children Within the Anthropocene: Carole Lindstroms’s We Are Water Protectors Hatice Bay 15. Beyond the Eco-Warrior Child in Children’s Literature Meghan M. Sweeney Section V: Spectrality and Memory 16. Dearly Departed: The Arrival’s Spectral Refugee Katharine Slater 17. Someone’s Missing: The Spectral Landscape of Martial Law in Selected Children’s Picturebooks from the Philippines Jose Monfred C. Sy 18. Charlotte Temple, a Literary Landmark, and Nineteenth-Century Notions of Adolescence Ivy Linton Stabell Section VI: Placing Readers 19. Space, Place, and Readers: Understanding Setting as ""Placing-in-Process"" Margaret Mackey 20. Child and Teen Demographics in Movement through the Fantastic Place of London Madison McLeod 21. Where Does Alice Come from? Places in Translation and Adaptation Smiljana Narančić Kovač 22. Canon Out of Place: Centering Lived Realities in Neurodivergent Middle Grade Literature Jennifer Slagus Section VII: Virtual and Archival Spaces 23. ""The Ickabog Illustration Competition"": Showcasing Reader Responses and a Transnational Poetics of Place Željka Flegar 24. Places and Spaces of/for Reading in Children’s Literature: From Mysterious Dusty Libraries to Cities Made of Books Maretta Sidiropoulou 25. Pilgrimages in the First Season of The Flying House Anime Series Lance Weldy 26. An All-White World? The Cartography We Create in Adaptations for Young People Elizabeth Garri"
Željka Flegar is an Associate Professor at the University of Osijek in Croatia, where she teaches and does research in English language and literature, media, and drama. She has published articles on the linguistic and narrative aspects of children’s literature and culture, adaptations, and popular media. She co-edited, with Ivana Moritz, the collection Children and Languages Today: First and Second Language Literacy Development (2019). Since 2020, Flegar has been a member of the editorial board of Libri & Liberi: Journal of Research on Children’s Literature and Culture. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Longwood University, USA (2021). Jennifer M. Miskec is a Professor of English at Longwood University in Virginia, USA, where she co-directs the Children’s Literature English Major Concentration and Children’s Literature Minor and teaches several children’s and young adult literature and culture courses. Miskec also leads children’s culture study abroad programs to Croatia and Serbia and to South Africa. Miskec’s scholarly work is primarily centered on studies of contemporary American children’s and YA literature. Miskec co-edited, with Annette Wannamaker, a collection of essays on Early Readers, The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture: Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (Routledge, 2016). She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zagreb, Croatia (2019) and a Fulbright Specialist at Simon Fraser University, Canada (2022).
