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The Experiences of Two Migrant Readers: Freedom, Restriction, and the Navigation of Adolescent Space
No full textThis article focuses on the experiences of Irina and Chloe, two adolescents who had recently migrated to Toronto at the time of the study in which they participated. Through reading discussion groups and semi-structured interviews, Irina and Chloe conceptualized place and identity within and beyond two contemporary young adult texts: Tim Wynne-Jones’s Blink and Caution and Clare Vanderpool’s Moon Over Manifest. Drawing on children’s literature criticism and cultural geography theory, I interpret the ways in which Chloe’s and Irina’s identities have been informed by migration as well as the ways in which mobility has shaped and constrained their familial and social relations. Through discourse analysis, I illustrate the ways in which place has informed their emerging adolescent identities. I offer a critical description of the moment in time when these texts, these readers, and I met as part of a reading transaction within a particular time and space.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.001
The Hermeneutics of Recuperation: What a Kinship-Model Approach to Children’s Agency Could Do for Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies
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Gregor the Overlander and A Wrinkle in Time: Father Lost, Father Found
No full textThis paper argues that Suzanne Collins’s book Gregor the Overlander rewrites Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, including the significant character of the father who has been missing from his child’s life for two years for the sake of science. The effect of this rewriting is in effect a secularizing and updating of L’Engle’s classic for children. Because L’Engle’s book is a Christian text whereas Collins’s is not, the former is more interested in myth, the latter in history, and both in considering warfare (as each father character is a prisoner of war) and in writing about science itself.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.002
Downward Mobility and the Individualization of Youth Struggle: Girls as Public Pedagogy
No full textEconomic recovery since the Great Recession of 2008–09 has been slow, and youth have felt particular and acute effects of this era of economic decline. This article examines the downward mobility contemporary youth are experiencing and assesses the rise of creative employment as a result of both the evaporation of permanent full-time work and a shift in youth values. Analyzing the television series Girls as an example of public pedagogy, this article investigates how contemporary economic issues involving youth are both highlighted and erased in public consciousness and considers the policy ramifications of this minimization of youth struggle.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.000
Canadian Children’s Shoe Stories and Their Antecedents: Fortune’s Footwear
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Recent Fiction by Joan Givner, Lydia Millet, and Amy Plum: Cli-fi Takes Off into a Dark Future
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Givner, Joan. The Hills Are Shadows. Saskatoon: Thistledown, 2014.
Millet, Lydia. Pills and Starships. New York: Black Sheep, 2014.
Plum, Amy. After the End. New York: Harper, 2014.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.001
Heterotopic Nightmares and Coming of Age in Elijah of Buxton: Mobility and Maturation
No full textA mobility perspective is essential to reading Christopher Paul Curtis’s Elijah of Buxton, as the trope of the journey is fundamental to African American coming-of-age novels. Eleven-year old Elijah Freeman travels from the security of his home to two locations, one in each half of the novel. Drawing on the work of Foucault, this paper characterizes these places as heterotopias (other places). These sites contrast mobility and stasis, allow Elijah to experience what W. E. B. Du Bois calls “double consciousness,” increase Elijah’s understanding of signifying, and illuminate lessons about slavery for both the protagonist and the reader.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.000
Introduction: Disputing the Role of Agency in Children’s Literature and Culture
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