Short description:

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children?s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children?s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of the print, digital, and electronic texts for children.

Long description:

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children?s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children?s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations.

Offering five distinct sections, this volume:

• Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children?s literature


• Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children


• Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children?s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content


• Maps how children?s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author?s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed ?other,? and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice


• Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children?s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children?s literature

Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Concepts and tools

Section introduction

1 Theory

2 Poetics and Pedagogy

3 Ethics and Historical Perspectives

4 Children?s Literary Geography

5 The Monster at the End of This Book:

Posthumanism and New Materialism in the Scholarship of Children?s Literature

6 Digital Humanities and Children?s Literature

7 Research with Young Readers: Participatory Approaches in Children?s Literature Studies

Section introduction

8 Picturebooks

9 Books for Beginners

Annette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec

10 Magazines

11 Comics for Children Across Cultures

12 Children?s Fiction: The Possibilities of Reality and Imagination

13 Nonfiction

14 Children?s Poetry

15 Theatre and Drama: Global Perspectives

16 Film

17 Television

18 Playful Possibilities: The Rights of the Reader in a Digital Age

Section introduction

19 Age

20 Gender

21 Nation and Citizenship

22 Religion and Children?s Literature

23 Whatever Common People Do: Social Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Children?s Fiction

Kimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen

24 Race and Ethnicity in Children?s Literature

25 LGBTQ+ Discourses in Eastern and Central European Children?s Literature

26 Disability and Children?s Literature

Section introduction

27 Translation

28 Retranslation

29 Adaptation

30 Fairy Tales and Circulation: A Case Study in Poland

31 Children?s Literature and Transnationalism

Clare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith

32 Transcultural Comparison as Method:

Korean and Hebrew Children?s Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century

33 Marketing and Franchising

34 Children?s Literature Websites and Fandom

Section introduction

35 Book Publishing and the British Sphere of Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

36 Children?s Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical Approach

Emily Bruce

37 Contemporary Asian Book Publishing

38 From Canon-Making to Participatory Prizing: Children?s Book and Media Awards

39 Children?s Literature in Schools

40 Libraries

41 Book Clubs

42 Promoting Children?s Reading Internationally

43 Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children?s Literature