{"title":"Murder for Kids: Children’s Literature and the Making of an American Tradition","authors":"Cathrine O. Frank","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420429","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":"Abandonment and Invisible Children in Contemporary Canadian Young Adult Fiction","authors":"Abbie Ventura","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 6.2 (2014) Armstrong, Luanne. I’ll Be Home Soon. Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2012. 194 pp. $11.95 pb. ISBN 978-155380-180-1. Print. Goobie, Beth. Jason’s Why. Markham: Red Deer, 2013. 80 pp. $8.95 pb. ISBN 978-0-88995-484-7. Print. Tanaka, Shelley. Nobody Knows. Toronto: Groundwood, 2012. 144 pp. $16.95 hc. ISBN 978-155498-118-2. Print. Adderson, Caroline. Middle of Nowhere. Toronto: Groundwood, 2012. 216 pp. $9.95 pb. ISBN 978-155498-132-8. Print.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420111","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":"L’album et le deuxième sexe","authors":"Louise Renée","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420672","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":"Defining, Managing, and Dictating Children’s Bodies: Discourses of “Good” Food and the Politics of “Growing”","authors":"Lauren Bosc","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420354","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":"Culinary Culture in Asian/North American Coming-of-Age Literature","authors":"J. Wills","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420284","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 Girls Who Do Not Eat: Food, Hunger, and Thinness in Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now and Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls","authors":"H. Tsai","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Critics have suggested that anorexia occurs frequently among middle-class and upper-middle-class adolescent girls. Going through a crucial stage of their development, they starve themselves voluntarily in times of plenty amid societal pressures to be thin. Published in the last decade, the two novels examined here serve as a locus for an analysis of this increasingly prevailing phenomenon and its connection to current social conditions. Drawing on food studies and on existing research on anorexia, this paper explores the significance of food, hunger, and thinness in both novels. Through its depiction of the protagonist’s experiences of genuine hunger and wartime scarcity, Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now urges a re-evaluation of familiar experiences of food and the prevailing views of thinness that are broadly accepted in societies of abundance. Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls presents a remarkable insight into a culture that encourages consumption and praises weight loss, revealing a pressing need for reform of both notions.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420334","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":"Remediating Tinker Bell: Exploring Childhood and Commodification through a Century-Long Transmedia Narrative","authors":"E. Meyers, J. McKnight, Lindsey Krabbenhoft","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The one-hundred-year trajectory of the mischievous Tinker Bell, from J. M. Barrie’s 1904 play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up to the present-day Disney Fairies franchise, is a metanarrative of adaptation and remediation through which media and “childhood” can be seen to interrelate as mutually constitutive forces. With a focus on contemporary children’s narratives and media, this paper examines incarnations of this media franchise at fifty-year intervals. Our close reading yields insights into the reflexive relationship between the social constructions of childhood, the evolution of narrative in children’s literature, and the development of media for child audiences since the Edwardian era. Using Tinker Bell as an exemplar for a phenomenon, we find that as children’s narratives and media evolve in ways that increase the potential for childhood agency, commercial formulations shape this agency strategically by structuring access and participation.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420237","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":"Advertising the Self: The Culture of Personality in E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web","authors":"Gabrielle Ceraldi","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0000","url":null,"abstract":"E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web reflects the emergence of what Warren I. Susman has termed the “culture of personality.” This shift from an older culture of character to a newer culture of personality is thrown into sharp relief in the novel, which juxtaposes the bucolic Zuckerman farm against an emerging consumeristic society in which self-promotion has become necessary for success. While White acknowledges the need for confident self-promotion, he also interrogates the culture of personality, resurrecting aspects of the culture of character as a corrective to the competitive and egoistic norms of modern life.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420221","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":"Masculinity, Makeovers, and the Ethics of Consumption in Japanese Films for Young People","authors":"Christie Barber","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines three recent Japanese films for young people—Kyō, koi wo hajimemasu (Today, I Will Fall in Love), Paradise Kiss, and Runway Beat—that employ a common narrative strategy whereby interior development of the female protagonist is matched by a process of transformation through consumption, in the form of a makeover. The films code consumption as morally good in that the female protagonists, following this transformation, achieve some degree of subjective agency and find meaningful positions in their social worlds. Nevertheless, an examination of the process of transformation and of the depictions of the young men who initiate and control the transformations reveals that these films convey a problematic ethics of consumption.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420265","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 Netflix Effect: Teens, Binge Watching, and On-Demand Digital Media Trends","authors":"S. Matrix","doi":"10.1353/JEU.2014.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JEU.2014.0002","url":null,"abstract":"As more of the audience for television shows opts to view them via Netflix, the practice of binge watching several episodes in a row is becoming normalized quickly. As a result, networks as well as content producers and distributors are rolling out more shows for toddlers, tweens, and teens via video-on-demand, over-the-top streaming services, and mobile apps. This essay explores the debates and discourses circulating in the popular press and online concerning the impact of an on-demand media culture. With seemingly infinite viewing options, instant gratification of converged media enabling TV everywhere, and social networks of TV chatter forming a digital water cooler, new modes of televisual engagement are emerging in youth culture.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JEU.2014.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66420255","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}