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Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in Reviewing Welcome to Country with Australian High-School Students: More than a Book Review
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Murphy, Aunty Joy. Welcome to Country, illustrated by Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog Books, 2016.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.000
The Terror of Childness in Modern Horror Cinema
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Bohlmann, Markus P. J., and Sean Moreland, editors. Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors. McFarland, 2015.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
La littérature de jeunesse entre les langues et à travers le temps / Children’s Literature between Languages and across Time
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Douglas, Virginie et Florence Cabaret, dir. La Retraduction en littérature de jeunesse / Retranslating Children’s Literature. P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.0016
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.002
An Intersectional Feminist Review of the Literature on Gendered Cyberbullying: Digital Girls
No full textHarmful tropes such as the “mean girl” and the “good girl” continue to inform both public dialogue and dominant scholarship around girls and bullying. This article reviews the existing interdisciplinary literature on cyberbullying from an intersectional feminist perspective. The author argues that there are currently two major gaps in dominant developmental psychology, education literature, and mass media discourses on girls and bullying from 2000 to the present: they often neglect the voices of girls themselves and lack intersectional frameworks. Drawing on a multi-year study of gendered cyberviolence and significant literature in girls’ digital culture that takes the voices of girls seriously, the author argues that alternative research methods will help us better understand the complex social phenomenon that is cyberbullying.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.000
Jessie Willcox Smith’s Critique of Teleological Girlhood in The Seven Ages of Childhood: “Sans Everything”
No full textThis article examines the intertextuality of verbal and visual elements in “The Seven Ages of Childhood,” a series of seven paintings by Jessie Willcox Smith reproduced in The Ladies’ Home Journal in 1908–09, and then bound in book form. Drawing on sources including Smith’s biography, The Ladies’ Home Journal, the captions for each piece (modelled on lines from Shakespeare’s As You Like It), and Carolyn Well’s verse contributions to the book form, this article argues that “Seven Ages” contains a subversive critique of the traditional teleological arc of girlhood, the aim of which was marriageability.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Katniss Everdeen’s Posthuman Identity in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Series: Free as a Mockingjay?
No full textThis article draws on theories of the posthuman in order to identify the significance of the figure of the mockingjay throughout the three volumes of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy. It argues that the ever-tighter association between Katniss Everdeen and this bio-engineered hybrid species of bird thematizes issues central to posthuman theory, most notably the blurring of species boundaries and the potential dangers to society posed by advanced technology. Furthermore, it discusses the impact of biotechnology upon the protagonist’s sense of identity. Analyzing the bird symbolism in the series, and in particular the development of the mockingjay, the article thus considers the values attributed to bio- and cyborg technology in the series as a whole.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Rethinking Street Culture: Enacting Youthful Defiance?
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Ilan, Jonathan. Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool. Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Kinship and the Queer Perversions of Six-Dinner Sid and Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies: Imagine (Un)Doing Family
No full textIn recent years scholars such as Natasha Hurley and Kenneth Kidd have been calling for a broadening of queer-theorizing within the field of children’s literature beyond questions of identity and same-sex desire. In this paper, I draw upon Judith Butler, Michael Warner, and others to offer a queer reading of two picture books: Six-Dinner Sid and Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies. Through an exploration of family and kinship within these texts, I show how reading perversely is a discursive tool that can destabilize dominant narratives and bring into play the potential for more inclusive and just processes of meaning-making.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.000