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“Because That’s What We Do . . . We Sit and We Drink and We Talk”: Stories and Storytelling among Street-Involved Youth
No full textEliciting stories of homelessness, past trauma, addiction, and street resilience is regarded widely as useful for understanding the problems youth face and enabling solutions. Young people’s stories of homelessness, past trauma, addiction, and street resilience can help illuminate the problems they face and identify possible solutions. Recent scholarship has conceptualized youth narratives in diverse ways, but how do young people view their stories and their telling? Drawing on our work in western Canada, we explore how a group of street-involved youth view stories as personal and collective memories, as strategies for negotiating the complex circumstances of their lives, and as especially powerful forms of recognition.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.002
Revisiting The Shocking Truth About Indians in Textbooks
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Manitoba Indian Brotherhood. The Shocking Truth About Indians in Textbooks. 1974. Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc., 2016.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.002
Childhood Studies Goes to War
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Paul, Lissa, Rosemary R. Johnston, and Emma Short, editors. Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War, Routledge, 2016.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.003
Moving Forward in Remembering a Truthful Past
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Arato, Rona. The Ship to Nowhere: On Board the Exodus. Second Story, 2016.
Kacer, Kathy, and Jordana Lebowitz. To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen’s Account of a War Criminal Trial. Second Story, 2017.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.0013
 
Childhood, Children’s Literature, and Postcolonialism
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Faulkner, Joanne. Young and Free: [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Grzegorczyk, Blanka. Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature. Routledge, 2015.
Stadler, Sandra. South African Young Adult Literature in English, 2000–2014. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2017.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Digital Piracy, Digital Practices: Changing Discourse on Young People and Downloading in Canadian Newspapers
No full textThis paper examines how young people are constructed as media pirates in three Canadian newspapers during two publication periods, 1998–2000 and 2010–2012. These periods bookend copyright law modernization in the United States and Canada, represented by the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed in 1998, and the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act, passed in 2012. Drawing on a corpus of articles from The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and the Calgary Herald as primary texts, I use critical discourse analysis and media frame analysis to argue that the discursive construction in print media of the young person as pirate reveals public attitudes toward copyright law.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.002
Traumatic Geographies: Mapping the Violent Landscapes Driving YA Rape Survivors Indoors in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, Elizabeth Scott’s Living Dead Girl, and E. K. Johnston’s Exit, Pursued by a Bear
No full textThe rape of the land and of women has long been connected in literature and across cultures (Phillips). Young Adult (YA) sexual assault narratives are growing increasingly popular, and the location of attacks in such stories is significant, such as when rape is depicted in nature, because, in reality, much sexual violence occurs in the private sphere (Kerber)—the home (Altrows). Using an ecofeminist lens and conceptions regarding the treatment of sexual violence in children’s and YA literature (Marshall, “Stripping”; “Girlhood”), this paper examines Speak (Anderson), Living Dead Girl (Scott), and Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Johnston), which all set rape scenes outdoors. When individuals are violated in outdoor spaces, these sites can come to hold traumatic memories, prompting a shift in survivors’ relationships with the outdoors. For the protagonists in all three novels examined here, outdoor spaces come to represent pain, and so a critical consideration of the setting of sexual assault in these stories—particularly spaces with land, trees, and water—is warranted.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.000