"This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children's and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children's and YA literature in contemporary culture"--
The first collection focusing on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature.
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"The essays in this volume contain impactful, useful, and innovative new approaches to each of the different controversies covered. As a whole, these essays contribute to ongoing discussions in the field, and the essays will also serve individually as vector points for new conversations in the field."
- Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State University
Notes on Contributors
Controversy and Children’s Literature: Introduction
Agata Zarzycka, Mateusz Świetlicki and Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska
Part 1 (G)Local Controversies
1 Controversy on the Children’s Book Market in Poland and Its Cultural and Social Background
Bożena Hojka and Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska
2 Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Topics and Polish Young Adult Literature
Monika Woźniak
3 Being Controversial in Scandinavia: An Iconotextual Analysis of Selected Norwegian and Danish Picturebooks
Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska
4 Political vs. Personal: Gender-Role Formation in the Works of Ukrainian Female Children’s Writers in the 1930s
Snizhana Zhygun
5 The Controversial Truth: Postmemory and the Great Terror in Yulia Yakovleva’s The Raven’s Children and Eugene Yelchin’s Breaking Stalin’s Nose
Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg
6 Controversies over the Holocaust and the Greek Civil War: Painful Memories in Greek Children’s Books
Meni Kanatsouli
7 Trauma Representation and Aestheticization in North American Young Adult Holocaust Literature
Talia Crockett
Part 2 Transcultural Controversies
8 Boys’ Friendship or Something More? Re-Examining Janusz Korczak’s King Matt the First and Its English Translations
Joanna Dybiec-Gajer
9 Annotated Editions as a Misappropriation of the Author’s Voice and of Children’s Reading: Some Polish Editions of Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
Barbara Kaczyńska
10 Beguiling Bygones and Relapses into Barbarism: Censoring Old Children’s Literature in the Netherlands
Charlotte van Bergen
11 Controversies of Authentic Adolescent Realism in Isabel Quintero’s Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014) and Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It (2015)
Jennifer Mooney
12 “I’m Not a Teapot”: The Controversy of (Post)Humanity in Selected Novels by Neal Shusrerman
Anna Bugajska
13 “Behind the Bars, No World”: Brecht Evens’ Panther as an Ironic Response to Children’s Literature
Katarzyna Smyczyńska
14 Two-Dad Families in Children’s Nonfiction Picturebooks
Angela Yannicopoulou
15 The Children’s Literature Scholar as a Two-Headed Creature (Lofting and Damrosch)
Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel
Index of Persons
Elbieta Jamróz-Stolarska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies (University of Wrocaw). She has published widely on the childrens book market, design and illustration. Her major recent work is Serie literackie dla dzieci i modziey w Polsce 19451989. Produkcja wydawnicza i uksztatowanie edytorskie [ Childrens and Young Adults Literature Series in Poland 1945-1989: Book Market and Design] (Warszawa, 2014).
Mateusz wietlicki is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocaws Institute of English Studies and Director of the Center for Young Peoples Literature and Culture. His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Childrens Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine.
Agata Zarzycka is an Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies (University of Wrocaw). She has recently published A Goth Reflection: Self-Fashioning and Popular Culture (Wrocaw, 2019). Her research interests include literary studies focused on speculative fiction, gothic studies, game studies focused on video games and role-playing games, fan studies, subcultural and cultural studies.
The editors are co-founders and members of The Centre for Research on Childrens and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocaw.
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