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Mickey Mouse Gas Masks and Wonderlands: Constructing Ideas of Trauma within Exhibitions about Children and War
No full textThe relationship between children and war is one that has permeated recent socio-cultural discourse. This article explores three exhibitions aimed at recreating wartime experience through the figure of the child. An outline of the predominant issues raised by these exhibitions include the homogenization of the child and war, the problematic identification of a tangible story and storyteller, mobilized bodies of transference, and what constitutes as testimony. Investigating the importance of the child figure in managing national traumas such as war is an approach that illustrates how it is used as a body on which a collective autobiography of national identity and experience can be written and articulated. A comparative reading of this practice is carried out in terms of other areas dealing with the child, trauma, and cultural discourse such as Holocaust literature and child sexual abuse, in an attempt to locate any continuities and discontinuities.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2013.001
Murder for Kids: Children’s Literature and the Making of an American Tradition
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Abate, Michelle Ann. Bloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children’s Literature. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2013.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.001
Defining, Managing, and Dictating Children’s Bodies: Discourses of “Good” Food and the Politics of “Growing”
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Hodge, Deborah. Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm. Photog. Brian Harris. Toronto: Kids, 2010.
Hodge, Deborah. Watch Me Grow! A Down-to-Earth Look at Growing Food in the City. Photog. Brian Harris. Toronto: Kids, 2011.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.000
Gazing Forward, Not Looking Back: Comfort Food without Nostalgia in the Novels of Polly Horvath
No full textConventionally, children are depicted finding comfort in the sensory appeal of food, as part of experiences that eventually will become sources of adult nostalgia. Polly Horvath’s novels provide narratives that depict the creation of such moments without the accompanying nostalgia. This essay analyzes two of Horvath’s most successful and food-focused novels, Everything on a Waffle and The Canning Season, using the disciplinary and theoretical frames of children’s literature, food studies, social science research on comfort food as well as literary scholarship on nostalgia and on Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, pursuing a counter-argument to the conventional view of children’s literature as a locus of nostalgia.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.000
Disability and Belonging in Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing
No full textThis essay looks at images of disability in Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing. The character of the lost thing, lost inside a world that clearly will not let it belong, represents the unrepresentable, while the boy narrator displays subtle depictions of cognitive difference. The lost thing’s body is incomprehensible for the very reason that it is so unlike the bodies of others. Although it may be tempting to read the boy narrator as dispassionate or as too emotionally detached because of his involvement with this uniform world, the protagonist gladly assists his new friend. As a different kind of thinker, the boy also does not quite fit in his world, even as he is not entirely separate from it.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.002
The Netflix Effect: Teens, Binge Watching, and On-Demand Digital Media Trends
No full textAs more of the audience for television shows opts to view them via Netflix, the practice of binge watching several episodes in a row is becoming normalized quickly. As a result, networks as well as content producers and distributors are rolling out more shows for toddlers, tweens, and teens via video-on-demand, over-the-top streaming services, and mobile apps. This essay explores the debates and discourses circulating in the popular press and online concerning the impact of an on-demand media culture. With seemingly infinite viewing options, instant gratification of converged media enabling TV everywhere, and social networks of TV chatter forming a digital water cooler, new modes of televisual engagement are emerging in youth culture.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.000
L’album et le deuxième sexe
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Gagne, Nelly Chabrol. Filles d’albums: Les représentations du féminin dans l’album. Le Puy-en-Velay: L’atelier du poisson soluble, 2011.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.002