Jeunesse - Young People, Texts, Cultures (E-Journal)
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Adult-Child Negotiations of Environmental Encounters: Mediating a Future of Hope
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Hodge, Deborah. West Coast Wild: A Nature Alphabet, illustrated by Karen Reczuch, Groundwood, 2015.
Lappano, Jon-Erik, and Kellen Hatanaka. Tokyo Digs a Garden. Groundwood, 2016.
Larsen, Andrew. Charlie’s Dirt Day, illustrated by Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli, Fitzhenry, 2014.
Wahl, Chris. Rosario’s Fig Tree, illustrated by Luc Melanson, Groundwood, 2015.
Wahl, Phoebe. Sonya’s Chickens. Tundra, 2015.
Wallace, Ian. The Slippers’ Keeper. Groundwood, 2015.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Stories about Strength and Disability: How We Get Along
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Di Fiore, Mariangela. Elephant Man, illustrated by Hilde Hodnefjeld, translated by Rosie Hedger, Annick, 2015.
Groth, Darren. Are You Seeing Me? Orca, 2015.
Nicholson, Lorna Schultz. Born With: Erika & Gianni. Clockwise, 2016.
Nicholson, Lorna Schultz. Fragile Bones: Harrison & Anna. Clockwise, 2015.
Segré, Chiara Valentina. Lola and I, illustrated by Paolo Domeniconi, translated by Chiara Valentina Segré, Fitzhenry, 2015.
Shaw, Liane. Don’t Tell, Don’t Tell, Don’t Tell, Second Story, 2016.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.003
The Child Mechanical and Adult Anxiety in Children’s Literature and Culture: “Wheels to the Rails!”
No full textThis article examines previous studies of anthropomorphized machinery in children’s literature and posits that paying particular attention to machinery specifically anthropomorphized as children yields insightful analytic results. Earlier studies have suggested anthropomorphized machinery softens large machines and renders them less threatening. The author argues that pedomorphized machines (machines given not just human, but specifically children’s characteristics) should be studied not for what new meanings they bring to the machines, but for new meanings they bring to the construct of childhood. Rather than humanizing the machine, pedomorphic machinery blends childhood innocence and traits of James Kincaid’s “Child Botanical” with ideas of power, mobility, and freedom. These images reveal a deep unease with the coupling of childhood and technology.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.000
Environmental Heroism and the Power of Storytelling in the Novels and Papers of Brian Doyle: “The Infinite Family of Organisms”
No full textBrian Doyle’s much-noted emphasis on environment provides a rich entry-point into his multi-award-winning corpus. Young protagonists’ bonds with nature resonate throughout Doyle’s work, especially as they mature into community leaders exploring eco-social justice. This paper maps Doyle’s developing engagement with environmental and ecosocial justice themes through research in the Brian Doyle Fonds and Groundwood Books Fonds, archives that provide invaluable but as-of-yet underutilized resources for scholars of Canadian children’s literature. It argues that Doyle’s novels develop a vision of interpenetrated social and environmental justice rooted in children’s empowerment as artistic creators and community leaders.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.000
Pinocchio migrant et postcolonial : parcours de subjectivation entre Europe centrale, Italie, et Afrique
No full textL’article porte sur deux récentes adaptations des Aventures de Pinocchio du célèbre écrivain italien Carlo Collodi : le roman Occhio a Pinocchio (2006) de Jarmila Očkayová, auteure italophone d’origine slovaque, et la pièce Pinocchio nero (2005), dirigée par Marco Baliani et interprétée par un groupe d’enfants des rues de Nairobi. Nous nous proposons de démontrer que ces deux auteurs, malgré les différences indéniables entre leurs œuvres (lieu de production et de réception, destinataire et genre littéraire), partagent la même stratégie postcoloniale à l’égard du « texte source » : ils s’approprient une œuvre du canon littéraire occidental en la transformant en une allégorie des procès de subjectivation/assujettissement des marginaux, qu’il s’agisse des (écrivains) immigrés en Italie ou des garçons de rue des bidonvilles kenyans. Notre approche des adaptations souhaite valoriser l’effet rétroactif que celles-ci peuvent avoir sur le texte de départ, notamment la capacité de dégager ou mettre en relief des significations négligées ou restées en marge des lectures précédentes du texte adapté. Nous aboutirons ainsi à une nouvelle interprétation du chef-d’œuvre de Collodi.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.000
Identity and Survival in the Multimedia Art of Street-Involved Youth
No full textAcademic and popular discourses alike tend to focus on street-involved youth as exemplars of the homeless problem or to overlook them entirely. This discussion aims to move beyond these frameworks, which often fail to acknowledge the talents and agency of street-involved young people, and to engage instead with the unique knowledges that are embedded within their creative endeavours. To do this, this essay places a media analysis of Another Slice, a multimedia website produced on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, in conversation with interviews with content producers as a means of illuminating the meaningful ways that youth at Directions Youth Services employ multimedia to assert identity, build community, challenge misconceptions about street life, and reimagine physical and social spaces.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Riel
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Noël-Maw, Martine. Louis Riel : Combattant métis, illustré par Sybiline et Adeline Lamarre, Éditions de l’Isatis, 2014.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.000
A Rhizomatic Exploration of Adolescent Girls’ Rough-and-Tumble Play as Embodied Literacy
No full textAs a teacher-researcher in a public charter middle school in the northeast United States, I simultaneously led a sixteen-month qualitative study and hosted an after-school beading class to investigate a group of adolescent girls’ self-selected, spontaneous intersections of literacy, play, and art. Between two and eight eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls agreed to participate in each meeting. Drawing on case study methods, I worked flexibly through participant observation to support adolescents with their self-selected projects, I video recorded this activity, and then I analyzed the resulting data using a rhizomatic approach in order to identify intense moments of affect. While play continuance seemed to be the girls’ main objective, they also voluntarily engaged in academic literacy activities that supported play. Further, rough-and-tumble play offered the girls opportunities to engage in low-risk heterosexual/heteronormative role play, unintentionally rupturing expectations of female passivity and pursuing positive affects as additional rewards of play. This study demonstrates how youth-centered play can provide access points to child-driven academic and embodied literacies.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Parental Mediation, YouTube’s Networked Public, and the “Baby-iPad” Encounter: Mobilizing Digital Dexterity
No full textThis study collected a sample of YouTube videos in which parents recorded their young children utilizing mobile touch-screen devices. Focusing on the videos that received the greatest number of views and comments, the paper analyzes the ways in which babies’ “digital dexterity” is coded and understood in terms of contested notions of “naturalness” and the ways in which the display of these capabilities are produced for a networked public. This reading of the “baby-iPad encounter” helps expand existing scholarly concepts such as parental mediation and technology domestication. Recruiting several theoretical frameworks, the paper seeks to go beyond concerns of mobile devices and immobile children by analyzing children’s digital dexterity not only as a kind of mobility but also as a set of reciprocal mobilizations that work across domestic, virtual, and publically networked spaces.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.000