Jeunesse - Young People, Texts, Cultures (E-Journal)
Not a member yet
404 research outputs found
Sort by
"So Much More than Pretty": Body Modification and Boundary Transgression in Melvin Burgess's Sara's Face
No full textThis paper examines three contemporary novels dealing with adolescent girls and cosmetic surgery, in which the bodies of the protagonists are constructed by social norms and structures based on gender. Melvin Burgess’s Sara’s Face offers an alternative to this cultural norm by depicting non-normative bodies that transgress gender and other categories and reveal them to be cultural fictions. Referring to theorists of embodiment studies who have tracked the history of cosmetic surgery, the article considers the hybridity of the body and of subjectivity that Burgess’s novel offers readers.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2012.001
Explorations of Childhood in a Modern Age: A Review of Three Books that Engage with Fairy-Tale Literature
Get PDFReview of:
Greenhill, Pauline, and Sidney Eve Matrix. Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity. Utah: Utah State UP, 2010.
Weston, Robert Paul. Dust City. Toronto: Penguin, 2010.
Yum, Hyewon. There Are No Scary Wolves. New York: Farrar, 2010.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2012.000
Reflections on Multiculturalism in Canadian Fiction for Young People since 1950: A Contribution to National Identity Formation
Get PDFReview of:
Richter, Miriam Verena. Creating the National Mosaic: Multiculturalism in Canadian Children’s Literature from 1950 to 1994. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2012.000
Henri Beaulac et la modernisation de l’illustration pour la jeunesse au Québec
Get PDFHenri Beaulac débute sa carrière en 1935 en réalisant quatre suites d’illustrations pour les Éditions Albert Lévesque de Montréal. Si les textes (Montcalm se fâche, La vie inspirée de Jeanne Mance, La vie gracieuse de Catherine Tekakwitha et L’É>vangile dans la vie scoute catholique) sont symptomatiques de la littérature pour la jeunesse de l’époque, conçue comme un outil d’éducation morale, religieuse et nationale, les illustrations se distinguent par un traitement original de l’image dans ses aspects techniques (gravure sur linoléum), stylistiques (dépouillement et stylisation des compositions) et iconographiques (approche inédite de la relation texte-image).
In English:
Henri Beaulac and the Modernization of Illustrations in the Children’s Literature of Quebec
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2011.001
Children, Visual Images, and Narratives
Get PDFReview of:
Colomer, Teresa, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, and Cecilia Silva-Diaz, eds. New Directions in Picturebook Research. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Edwards, Gail, and Judith Saltman. Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010.
Harding, Jennifer, and Pat Pinsent, eds. What Do You See? International Perspectives on Children’s Book Illustration. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Lerner, Loren, ed. Depicting Canada’s Children. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2009.
Pantaleo, Sylvia. Exploring Student Response to Contemporary Picturebooks. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2011.000
Hospitality and Subjectification: On Seeing Children and Youth as Respondents
Get PDFDOI: 10.1353/jeu.2011.001
Raising Jack Perverse: On Childhood, Perversity, and James Hearne’s Case
Get PDFThis paper considers two versions of the child that circulated in Romantic thought – (1) the dangerous, inherently perverse child, and (2) the innocent child who is susceptible to perversion – in light of Charles Bradbury’s 1755 trial and the testimony of James Hearne, a young apprentice who accused Bradbury of sodomy. The author argues that these reductive versions of the child remain in circulation today, as evidenced by recent changes to Canada’s age of consent legislation, and a critical reading of Hearne’s case points to how children’s behaviour always exceeds the narratives adults create to understand and explain it.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2011.0008
 
Reaching across Borders: Canadian Girls Reading African Girls’ Stories
Get PDFReview of:
Badoe, Adwoa. Between Sisters. Toronto: Groundwood, 2010.
Combres, Élisabeth. Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda. Trans. Shelley Tanaka. Toronto: Groundwood, 2009.
Joyal, Lisa. Swahili for Beginners: A Young Adult Novel. Toronto: Sumach, 2007.
Kent, Trilby. Stones for My Father. Toronto: Tundra, 2011.
Mankell, Henning. Shadow of the Leopard. Trans. Anna Paterson. Toronto: Annick, 2009
Oron, Judie. Cry of the Giraffe: Based on a True Story. Richmond Hill: Annick, 2010.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2011.001