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How to Be Yourself: Ideological Interpellation, Weight Control, and YA Novels
No full textThis article engages with two YA novels in order to examine how texts that appear to go against prevalent cultural messages about bodily norms participate nonetheless in the same process of ideological interpellation. Carolyn Mackler’s The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things has an overweight protagonist, whereas Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls has an anorexic one. Both novels show their characters changing how they interact with food and thereby becoming productive members of society. As the novels work to undo destructive socialization, they provide new lessons in appropriate consumption.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.002
National Fantasies
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Myers, Lindsay. Making the Italians: Poetics and Politics of Italian Children’s Fantasy. Bern: Lang, 2012.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.001
The Uncanny Return of Repressed History in Jonathan Hobin’s In the Playroom: Playing beyond the Pleasure Principle
No full textThis paper investigates the motif of repetition in relationship to the pervasive emblem of the child as future. Drawing from Sigmund Freud’s discussion of the uncanny and from D. W. Winnicott’s theory of playing, the paper proposes that newness rests not on the literal fact of the child but in the play of signification—the life of the signifier—opened up in the haunting encounter with old scenes. When childhood is understood as an uncanny effect, we may encounter the adult’s repressed and quaking insides, an encounter from which typically we flee in the idealization of the child as future. This paper takes as its object of analysis a recent series by Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin called In the Playroom, which features children as “doubles” who re-enact scenes of historical violence and power plays of the adult world. Hobin’s doubles have uncanny effects that hold the potential for renewed meaning in a world that turns on the compulsion to repeat.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2014.001
Isolation, Exploration, Affirmation: Dominant Patterns in Four Books for Gay Teens
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Bach, Tamara. Girl from Mars. Trans. Shelley Tanaka. Toronto: Groundwood, 2008.
Harris, Michael. Homo. Toronto: Lorimer, 2012.
Ryan, Tom. Way to Go. Victoria: Orca, 2012.
Sobat, Gail Sidonie. Chance to Dance for You. Winnipeg: Great Plains, 2011.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2013.000
Jean Perrot: celui qui aime recommencer
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Perrot, Jean. Du jeu, des enfants et des livres à l’heure de la mondialisation. Paris: Cercle de la Librairie, 2011.
Nières-Chevrel, Isabelle, et Jean Perrot, dirs. Dictionnaire du livre de jeunesse: la littérature d’enfance et de jeunesse en France. Paris: Cercle de la Librairie, 2013.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2013.001
Scripted Violence, Scripted Deferral: Pre– and Post–Civil Rights Racial Innocence
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Bernstein, Robin. Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York: New York UP, 2011.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2013.000
A Publisher’s Legacy: The Children’s Books of Douglas & McIntyre
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Campbell, Maria. People of the Buffalo: How the Plains Indians Lived. Illus. Douglas Tait and Shannon Twofeathers. Vancouver: Douglas, 1976.
Campbell, Maria. Riel’s People: How the Métis Lived. Illus. David MacLagan. Vancouver: Douglas, 1978.
de Vries, Maggie. Big City Bees. Illus. Renné Benoit. Vancouver: Greystone, 2012.
de Vries, Maggie. Fraser Bear: A Cub’s Life. Illus. Renné Benoit. Vancouver: Greystone, 2010.
de Vries, Maggie. Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story. Illus. Renné Benoit. Vancouver: Greystone, 2006.
Hewitt, Garnet. Ytek and the Arctic Orchid: An Inuit Legend. Illus. Heather Woodall. Vancouver: Douglas, 1981.
Manson, Ainslie. Boy in Motion: Rick Hansen’s Story. Illus. Renné Benoit. 2007. Vancouver: Greystone, 2009.
Manson, Ainslie. Roll On: Rick Hansen Wheels around the World. Illus. Ron Lightburn. Vancouver: Greystone, 2012.
Reid, Bill, and Robert Bringhurst. The Raven Steals the Light. Illus. Bill Reid. 1984. Vancouver: Douglas, 1996.
Richards, Jack. Johann’s Gift to Christmas. Illus. Len Norris. 1972. Vancouver: Douglas, 1992.
Steltzer, Ulli. Building an Igloo. Vancouver: Douglas, 1981.
Suzuki, David. There’s a Barnyard in My Bedroom. Illus. Eugenie Fernandes. Vancouver: Greystone; Vancouver: David Suzuki Foundation, 2008.
Suzuki, David, and Sarah Ellis. Salmon Forest. Illus. Sheena Lott. Vancouver: Greystone; Vancouver: David Suzuki Foundation, 2003.
Suzuki, David, and Kathy Vanderlinden. Eco-fun: Great Projects, Experiments, and Games for a Greener Earth. Illus. Jane Kurisu. Vancouver: Greystone; Vancouver: David Suzuki Foundation, 2001.
Suzuki, David, and Kathy Vanderlinden. You Are the Earth. 2nd ed. Illus. Wallace Edwards. Vancouver: Greystone; Vancouver: David Suzuki Foundation, 2010.
Waterton, Betty. Pettranella. Illus. Ann Blades. 1980. Toronto: Groundwood, 2003.
Waterton, Betty. A Salmon for Simon. Illus. Ann Blades. Rev. ed. Toronto: Groundwood, 1996.
Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll. Red: A Haida Manga. Vancouver: Douglas, 2009.
Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll, with a message from Wangari Maathai. The Little Hummingbird. Vancouver: Greystone, 2010.
Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll, with Wangari Maathai and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment. Vancouver: Greystone, 2008.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2013.000
Jumping on the "Comics for Kids" Bandwagon
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Brit, Fanny. Jane, the Fox and Me. Illus. Isabelle Arsenault. Trans. Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou. Toronto: Groundwood, 2012.
Davila, Claudia. Luz Makes a Splash. Toronto: Kids, 2012.
Davila, Claudia. Luz Sees the Light. Toronto: Kids, 2011.
Dawson, Willow. Hyena in Petticoats: The Story of Suffragette Nellie McClung; A Graphic Novel. Toronto: Penguin, 2011.
Lang, John. Lone Hawk: The Story of Air Ace Billy Bishop; A Graphic Novel. Toronto: Penguin, 2011.
Robertson, David Alexander. 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga. Illus. Scott B. Henderson. Winnipeg: HighWater, 2012.
Robertson, David Alexander. 7 Generations: The Pact. Illus. Scott B. Henderson. Winnipeg: HighWater, 2011.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2013.001