{"title":"Quince Duncan's Los cuentos de Anansi: Reframing Young Black Lives in Anti-Racist Costa Rican Children's Literature","authors":"Regan Postma-Montaño","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0543","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the role of Los cuentos de Anansi (Anancy's Stories) (2019), written by Quince Duncan and illustrated by Ruth Angulo Cruz, in disrupting anti-Blackness via anti-racist stories for Afro-Latine young peoples in Costa Rica. Drawing from the critical work of scholars such as Richard Delgado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, Joe R. Feagin, Tara Yosso, and Dolores Delgado Bernal, I demonstrate how Duncan and Angulo Cruz's work provides counter-stories for Afro-Latine young people to see themselves and their ancestors as a valuable part of the national imaginary, and further, from these kinds of affirmations, offers essential tools for resistance against racism and other exclusionary oppressions. My analysis draws on three stories from the Jack Mantorra section of the picture book, ‘Yemayá, jefe del pueblo’, ‘Vaicito’, and ‘Y una historia moderna: Miguelillo Tulipán y Bambembimbombum’, all which foreground the cultural wealth of Afro-Latine peoples and cast young Black people as leaders. I argue that these stories provide important tool kits for Afro-Latine children to effectively counter whiteness and Eurocentrism, thus propelling these young readers forward. Whereas colonialism and racism have erased, occluded, or devalued Black lives and their significant contributions, Black heroes like Yemayá, Vaicito, and Miguelillo provide young readers with vital tools for constructing new meanings of self and of community that are Afrocentric in nature. Armed with these forms of cultural awareness and knowledge, Afro-Latine children can become anti-racist activists who disrupt anti-Blackness in Nuestra América. Los cuentos de Anansi seeks to transform the lives of children so that they can transform the world around them. In this regard, Los cuentos de Anansi, in proposing these transformational possibilities, allows us to envision our hemisphere in profoundly more just and equitable ways.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"66 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139826482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Macarena García-González, Felipe Munita, Evelyn Arizpe
{"title":"Introduction: Latin American Children's Literature and Culture","authors":"Macarena García-González, Felipe Munita, Evelyn Arizpe","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"9 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139815603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argentinian Children's Literature and Independent Publishing Houses: Emerging Forms in the Re-editions of María Teresa Andruetto's Poems","authors":"Natalia Rodríguez, Rocío Malacarne","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0546","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the relationship between children's literature and the ecosystem of independent publishing houses in Argentina. The first part of the article focuses on describing the editorial operations carried out by independent Argentinian publishers and, by virtue of the examination of their editorial practices, it is argued that their interventions (i.e., their re-editings of literary works) seek to introduce both textual and material innovations to Argentina's editorial landscape. It is also argued that the emergence of these editorial practices manages to resignify literary textualities and book materialities, as well as reading practices. The second half of the article offers an analysis of two works by María Teresa Andruetto that have been re-edited by independent presses in Argentina: Peras and Poesía a la carta. Both re-editions are analysed in view of their editorial kinship to their corresponding collections and catalogues. The analysis of these works (re-edited in picturebook and playbook formats, respectively) illuminates and acknowledges the existence of editorial gestures that, in their mediations/modulations of the canon, strive to challenge age boundaries and intended readerships, as well as conventions on literary genres and their materialities. Ultimately, these features profile the re-editions of Peras and Poesía a la carta as disruptive literary artefacts, insofar as they manage to challenge aesthetic and editorial orthodoxies.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"7 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139883831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Campo en formación. Textos clave para la crítica de literatura infantil a juvenil [A field in formation: key texts for the criticism of children's and young adult literature] edited by Macarena García-González, Evelyn Arizpe, and Andrea Casals","authors":"Valentina Rivera Bravo","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139873956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caribbean Children's Literature, Vol. 2: Critical Approaches edited by Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega","authors":"Heidi A. Lawrence","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"6 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139876687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argentinian Children's Literature and Independent Publishing Houses: Emerging Forms in the Re-editions of María Teresa Andruetto's Poems","authors":"Natalia Rodríguez, Rocío Malacarne","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0546","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the relationship between children's literature and the ecosystem of independent publishing houses in Argentina. The first part of the article focuses on describing the editorial operations carried out by independent Argentinian publishers and, by virtue of the examination of their editorial practices, it is argued that their interventions (i.e., their re-editings of literary works) seek to introduce both textual and material innovations to Argentina's editorial landscape. It is also argued that the emergence of these editorial practices manages to resignify literary textualities and book materialities, as well as reading practices. The second half of the article offers an analysis of two works by María Teresa Andruetto that have been re-edited by independent presses in Argentina: Peras and Poesía a la carta. Both re-editions are analysed in view of their editorial kinship to their corresponding collections and catalogues. The analysis of these works (re-edited in picturebook and playbook formats, respectively) illuminates and acknowledges the existence of editorial gestures that, in their mediations/modulations of the canon, strive to challenge age boundaries and intended readerships, as well as conventions on literary genres and their materialities. Ultimately, these features profile the re-editions of Peras and Poesía a la carta as disruptive literary artefacts, insofar as they manage to challenge aesthetic and editorial orthodoxies.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"91 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139823940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Desire Seeks Its Dwelling: Gendering Literature Teaching from the Contributions of Feminist Pedagogies","authors":"Valeria Sardi","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0542","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I set about theorising the construction of a gendered didactic of literature, one that accounts for alternative ways of reading and approaching literary texts in school settings. Throughout my article, I intend to trouble literary reading practices insofar as they are socio-cultural, embodied, and sexed-and-gendered in nature. To do so, I will borrow from literature teaching experiences set in high schools 1 from the Buenos Aires province (Argentina). My writing will analyse pedagogical accounts of classroom happenings from the theoretical contributions of language and literature teaching, as well as from feminist, queer, and decolonial epistemologies and pedagogies. These theoretical approaches propose grappling with literature from local and embodied stances – against the grain of a colonial, capitalist, white, androcentric, encyclopaedistic, and hetero-cisnormative matrix – and, from that locus, seek to produce insights about alternative ways of conceptualising knowledge, pedagogical relationships, and the very subjects engaged in teaching and learning in pedagogical settings.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139685173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Macarena García-González, Felipe Munita, Evelyn Arizpe
{"title":"Introduction: Latin American Children's Literature and Culture","authors":"Macarena García-González, Felipe Munita, Evelyn Arizpe","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139875356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yo mediador(a). Mediación y formación de lectores [I, mediator. Mediation and readers' formation] by Felipe Munita","authors":"Soledad Véliz","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"1 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139881055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Good Cause for Living’: Environmental Justice in Virginia Hamilton’s <i>M. C. Higgins, the Great</i>","authors":"Lauren Rizzuto","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0524","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an ecocritical reading of Virginia Hamilton’s celebrated novel M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974) to reposition it as a milestone of environmental writing for children. Arriving concurrently with the first Earth Day in the United States in 1970, the novel exposes the generational effects of environmental racism toward Black Americans in the steel industry and condemns the ongoing injustices of strip-mining in Appalachia. However, the novel remains neglected in the primarily white space of ecocriticism. Rereading it as a text for environmental justice recentres Hamilton’s contribution to environmental writing for children and prompts reflection amongst scholars about whose stories occupy which spaces in critical study.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}