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De la promoción de la lectura al arte de la hospitalidad / Promoting Readership and the Art of Hospitality
No full textSpanish: DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.0006
English: DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.000
Envious Virgins and Adolescent Sexuality: The (Un)Importance of the Hymen in Virginity Studies
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Allan, Jonathan A., et al., editors. Virgin Envy: The Cultural (in)Significance of the Hymen. U of Regina P, 2016.
Flynn, Laurie Elizabeth. Firsts: A Novel. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015.
Rosin, Lindsey. Cherry. Simon Pulse, 2016.
Silvera, Adam. History Is All You Left Me. Soho Teen, 2017.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.000
Imagination and Inquiry: Creative Approaches to Encouraging Literacy Development
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Murris, Karin. The Posthuman Child: Educational Transformation through Philosophy with Picturebooks. Routledge, 2016.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.001
Selfish Giants and Child Redeemers: Refiguring Environmental Hope in Oscar Wilde’s and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant
No full textIn this paper, I explore how stories of lost and broken worlds have been tied to hopes about the redemptive possibilities of a new generation. I historicize and complicate the idea of children as environmental stewards of an imagined planetary future. I investigate the issue further by examining the particular figure of the child redeemer and our “investment in the image of the child as a sign of the future, as defence against loss of significance in the world” (Lebeau 179). Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant and Clio Barnard’s recent film adaptation of Wilde’s book will be the objects of my discussion. Barnard’s film, set in the post-industrial landscape of Bradford, England, offers child protagonists who unsettle the familiar fantasy of redemption and invite us to think past sentimental and nostalgic arguments for ecological preservation (premised on preserving an unjust world as it is). While it is important not to topple the myth of childhood innocence only to resurrect another myth of childhood agency, I am interested in these moments of refusal and how they point to the limits of a sentimental ecology.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.000
Reconfiguring the Sick Girl in Young Adult Literature: Worlds Where We Might Belong
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Avery, Lara. The Memory Book. Poppy, 2016.
Garvin, Jeff. Symptoms of Being Human. Balzer + Bray, 2016.
Kletter, Kerry. The First Time She Drowned. Philomel Books, 2016.
Reichardt, Marisa. Underwater. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.
Smith, Amber. The Way I Used to Be. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2016.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.0008
 
David A. Carter, Alexander Calder, and the Childlikeness of the Moveable Book: Children as “Children of All Ages”
No full textDavid A. Carter’s abstract pop-up books, identified as being “for children of all ages,” share qualities with the art of Alexander Calder, whose mobiles are often called “childlike.” In particular, both artists diverge from the conventions of their crafts by introducing moveable elements and by implying how they should be moved, and discussions of each of them often connect their mobility with ideas about childlikeness. As well as exploring the relationship between mobility and childlikeness in Calder’s and Carter’s works, this essay explores the connections between those qualities in the discussion of children’s literature and art more generally.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001