{"title":"Where the <i>Wild</i> Things Are: An-Other Critique of Niki Daly’s <i>Pretty Salma</i>","authors":"Sayanti Mondal","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0527","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a postcolonial critique of Niki Daly’s Pretty Salma (2006), a Ghanaian retelling of the European folktale Little Red Riding Hood. Here, I particularly examine the role and representation of characters that highlight the conflict between the traditional and non-traditional styles of livelihood within Ghanaian society and argue for a more critically sensitive and inclusive approach to societal representation within Black spaces.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"19 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":"135367464","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":"The Child Protagonist as Agent and Subject in <i>Harriet's Daughter</i> and <i>Crick Crack, Monkey</i>","authors":"Victoria V. Chang","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0525","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores two novellas by Black Caribbean women writers: Crick Crack, Monkey by Trinidadian author Merle Hodge, and Harriet's Daughter by Tobagonian-born M. NourbeSe Philip. In Hodge's work, the protagonist, Tee, must negotiate between two worlds. The first is that of her early home with the rough working-class aunt (Tantie), seemingly chaotic but also full of warmth, humour, and familial love. This is juxtaposed against her new home with her haughty Aunt Beatrice, who advocates colonial values and demands conformity from her niece for Tee to gain acceptance and belonging. In contrast to Hodge's protagonist, Tee, Philip's Margaret keenly desires closer ties to her Caribbean identity. She creates a world of refuge against an environment that seeks to erase blackness and crafts a self in relation to her chosen identity, exercising agency with respect to her notions of selfhood and citizenship.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"148 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":"135367655","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":"<i>Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture</i> by Marilisa Jiménez García","authors":"Sofia de Melo Araújo","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"148 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":"135367465","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":"<i>The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction</i> by Joseph W. Campbell","authors":"Sara Pini","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"23 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":"135367657","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":"<i>British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour</i> by Karen Sands-O’Connor","authors":"Alison Halsall","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"17 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":"135367659","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":"<i>From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families: The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives</i> by Abbye E. Meyer","authors":"Elizabeth Leung","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0533","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"22 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":"135367469","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":"Introduction: Black Spaces in International Children's Literature","authors":"Karen Chandler, Michelle H. Martin","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"55 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":"135367661","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":"<i>African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative</i> by Melanie A. Marotta","authors":"Michael Omoge","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"14 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":"135367662","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":"<i>Comparative Children’s Literature: Comparative Study of Slovene Children’s Literature in an International Context</i> by Milena Mileva Blažić","authors":"Alicja Wang","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"55 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":"135367458","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":"<i>Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States</i> by Sara Austin","authors":"Jeanie Wills","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2023.0531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"110 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":"135367461","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}