{"title":"Uncanny Youth: Childhood, the Gothic, and the Literary Americas by Suzanne Manizza Roszak (review)","authors":"M. Castleman","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"422 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48759772","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":"Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States by Sara Austin","authors":"J. Sommers","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46612595","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 Many Malalas: Self-Narrativization and the Construction of Mythology through Poetry","authors":"Tehmina Pirzada","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article situates poetry and poetic expression as a centerpiece of Malala Yousafzai's activism, foregrounding how Malala's auto/biographical poetic performances enable her to effectively narrate her story, as well as foster a mythology (both personal and communal) that celebrates her sacrifice. Though there are numerous journalistic and scholarly accounts related to Malala, to date, there is no scholarship about Malala's use of poetry for activism. This article rectifies that absence by emphasizing that Malala has always claimed a stake in the public imagination through her poetic performance and its related visual and cultural capital. The first section of the article establishes how through auto/biographic poetic performance, Malala resists the notion of a singular self. In the second section, it focuses on Malala's use of Pashtun mythology in cultivating her visual repertoire, and in the last section it contends that the poets writing for Malala amplify her narrative that there are many Malalas in Swat and beyond.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"370 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49064132","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":"\"They're all kinda dark …\": Speak and Thirteen Reasons Why Fanfiction Poetry as Resistance to Rape Culture","authors":"Amber Moore","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper analyzes a genre not typically explored: fanfiction poetry writing, particularly crafted in response to young adult sexual assault narratives. Examinations of poetry inspired by two young adult novels about rape victim-survivors, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why, demonstrate the ways in which poetry can be used to process violent literary experiences as well as exercise care through poetic witnessing. This especially surfaces through poets' explorations of emotional, psychological, and spiritual impact of rape; bursts of resistant literary activism; and finding potential pathways to respite from rape culture through glimpses of acceptance, healing, and self-love.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"403 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47251646","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":"From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families: The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives by Abbye E. Meyer","authors":"Megan Marshall","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49669385","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":"Metaphysics of Children's Literature: Climbing Fuzzy Mountains by Lisa Sainsbury (review)","authors":"S. Piede","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Zipes identifies a strong influence of Kafka’s droll humor in Brandt’s texts and illustrations. The black-andwhite pencil illustrations highlight the absurd and bizarre events of the fairy tales. Zipes is uncertain which specific translations Brandt used for the texts but notes that Brandt made modest changes to the tales. For instance, the witch in Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” is not killed, and Gretel eventually marries a king and becomes a queen. Only a few illustrations appear in color. They seem like they could have been inspirations for the Norse Gods and Giants (1967) and Trolls (1972) illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Pain D’Aulaire, Rodney Greenblat’s Thunder Bunny series, or the weirdly cartoony art of Kenny Scharf. Brandt’s illustrations have been praised for their eerie quality and considered to be as absurd and mysterious as dreams. While Brandt’s quirky illustrations are Zipes’s primary reason for reprinting this collection, these illustrations seem to fall in the second tier of Grimm illustrators, since many other talented artists including Wanda Gág, Arthur Rackham, Gustaf Tenggren, and Maurice Sendak have illustrated Grimm’s folk tales. More promising is the brief epilogue that provides a series of haunting images from Brandt’s literary fairy tale The Man with the Red Umbrella (1946). Zipes describes it as a story written in the Alice in Wonderland formula. One hopes Zipes will reprint this Brandt volume in the series.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"434 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47650579","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":"Youth Poets in Children's Literature, Media, and Performance","authors":"Krystal J. Howard","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"355 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46552812","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":"Curious About George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre (review)","authors":"Tharini Viswanath","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Children’s Literature Association Quarterly enduring romanticized image of the solitary reader, an image masking the reality that reading is a fundamentally social and relational act” (5). Hagen also raises important questions about what those who mediate children’s reading should not take for granted: “it is imperative to ask questions of books, data sets, archives, libraries, and public programs or policies, regarding how these are designed, compiled, and organized, because the analyses in these essays have highlighted how assumptions about the effects of reading on the reader permeate every aspect of the investigation of reading” (15). Most readers of this review are mediators of children’s literature, one way or another. This book invites such readers to reflect on the varied ways we frame literature for children and make it available, and to consider the impact, intended or accidental, of our assumptions and practices.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"334 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45446982","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}
S. Day, Abigail S. Woodward, Wesley Jacques, Regan Postma-Montaño, Jesus Montaño, G. Williams, M. West, Margaret Mackey, Tharini Viswanath, C. Mills, Karen Sands-O’Connor, Valerie Longo, Marianne Stecher-Hansen, M. Swift, J. Young
{"title":"Introduction: How to Make a Map","authors":"S. Day, Abigail S. Woodward, Wesley Jacques, Regan Postma-Montaño, Jesus Montaño, G. Williams, M. West, Margaret Mackey, Tharini Viswanath, C. Mills, Karen Sands-O’Connor, Valerie Longo, Marianne Stecher-Hansen, M. Swift, J. Young","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Criticism of Linda Sue Park's Prairie Lotus (2020) has focused on this text as a rewriting of Little House on the Prairie, particularly the idea that this work—which stars an Asian American heroine—corrects the more troubling aspects of Little House. This essay instead focuses on the sexual violence that seeps into and concludes Park's work. I examine this alongside a 19th century text by Oliver Optic that also features sexual violence in the American West; in so doing I reframe Prairie Lotus as a text worth examining as a reflection of the history of sexualized violence against Asian American women and girls.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"247 - 249 - 250 - 266 - 267 - 285 - 286 - 308 - 309 - 330 - 331 - 331 - 332 - 334 - 334 - 337 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41992907","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":"Children's Literature in the Nordic World by Nina Christensen and Charlotte Appel (review)","authors":"Marianne Stecher-Hansen","doi":"10.1353/chq.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Book Reviews relate to neoliberalism, providing welcome additions to the discourse of education-centric stories as they look toward the twenty-first-century sociopolitical climate. Aitchison’s examination of this genre affords key information about school as both an institution and a cultural concept, the experiences of children through the lens of school which overtakes a huge portion of their lives, and the way in which authors choose to portray such experiences. While Aitchison ultimately leaves the text with an air of uncertainty, anything less would dodge the precarity of the continuously evolving school story and do a disservice to the children at the center whose futures are still unfolding.","PeriodicalId":40856,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature Association Quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"345 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42513541","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}