Names, Naming, Diversity, and Identity in Youth Literature

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Rowman & Littlefield
25 June 2026

Philosophy of language; Children's literature studies: general

Series: Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Recent years have seen a significant increase in works of fiction that champion and celebrate diversity and inclusion for young readers. At the same time, the world has witnessed a radical backlash against youth literature that positively explores issues of individual difference and group belonging.

This multi-authored volume explores this growing tension and features chapters that critically examine how youth literature use names and naming to present child, adolescent, teen, and tween readers to the world’s ethnic, cultural, linguistic, neurological, religious, diversity. The contributors to this work represent themselves a kaleidoscope of cultural and linguistic backgrounds while sharing a common academic background in literature and onomastics. Although the primary

geographic focus of the chapters selected for this publication is Anglo-American a

supplementary call for chapter proposals has explicitly solicited additional proposals that

have a broader, international, range.

The editor is an internationally recognized expert in investigation of names and naming. She is the past president of the American Name Society, one of the world’s oldest and largest scholarly societies devoted to onomastic research.

Edited by: I.M. Nick
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781666975864
ISBN 10: 1666975869
Series: Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 25 June 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

I.M. Nick is President of the Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics and Editor-in-Chief of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics.

Reviews for Names, Naming, Diversity, and Identity in Youth Literature

Dr. Nick, former president of the American Name Society and current Editor-in-Chief of Names, enjoys an international reputation for her scholarship in in the study of names and naming. Every chapter in this volume is of the highest quality and makes a substantive contribution to onomastics and literary studies. * Frank Nuessel, Professor Emeritus, University of Louisville, USA *