Jeunesse - Young People, Texts, Cultures (E-Journal)
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Neo-Paganism for Teens
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Bramwell, Peter. Pagan Themes in Modern Children’s Fiction: Green Man, Shamanism, Earth Mysteries. London: Palgrave, 2009.
Drawson, Blair, and Anne Marie Drawson. Witches in the Kitchen: A Year in the Life of a Junior Witch. Toronto: Puffin, 2006.
Johnston, Hannah E., and Peg Aloi, eds. The New Generation Witches: Teenage Witchcraft in Contemporary Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Pattison, Caroline Rennie. The Law of Three: A Sarah Martin Mystery. Toronto: Dundurn, 2007.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.003
The Mirror Staged: Images of Babies in Baby Books
Get PDFThis essay focuses on the many "baby books" currently available that consist mainly of photographs of of other images of babies, and considers how these images might represent replications or restagings of the mirror stage and function as versions of the Ideal-I for their implied baby viewers. As images of actual children, the photographs in these books represent what most adult viewers take to be the most realistic representations of babyhood possible––the way babies actually look, which, in the context of Lacan's Ideal-I, might better be understood as the way babies are actually supposed to look as currently understood. In terms of conventional adult assumptions about how baby viewers might look at and understand these images in relation to themselves, these images quite literally restage the mirror stage––show the baby an image of a baby to identify with and see as what it ought to be itself. By considering the implications of a number of photographs and other images of of babies in baby books, the essay explores what these books tell their implied baby reader/viewers about what it means to be a baby, and about what is the right kind of baby to be.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.003
Breaking Faith: Disrupted Expectations and Ownership in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga
Get PDFMy paper suggests that the Twilight saga’s enormous popularity is closely tied to its author’s tension-filled relationship with her fans, who claim ownership of her text by forcing their own interpretations through online media. The result is that through engaging with her fans, Stephenie Meyer actually empowers the Twilight fandom and alters the role readers play in the tri-part relationship of reader, author, and text. Fan studies and reception theory help me to effectively examine this dynamic by considering interpretations of what is “canon,” representations of women, and the creation of new Twilight books.
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From Christian Conversion to Children’s Crusade: The Left Behind Series for Kids and the Changing Nature of Evangelical Juvenile Fiction
Get PDFThis essay builds on the author's previous work on the Left Behind novels for kids, arguing that while current socio-political conditions have certainly contributed to the success of the series, an earlier phenomenon informs its literary structure: the many novels and stories produced by the American Sunday School Union (ASSU). The numerous literary, cultural, religious, and historical details that connect ASSU fiction and the Left Behind: The Kids series demonstrate significant continuities in the projects of US evangelical Christianity over more than a century. The closing section discusses how the differences between the current crop of evangelical narratives and the historical ones are just as instructive as their similarities, for they demonstrate changing conceptions of children and childhood in the United States, and the place and purpose of religious-themed narratives for young readers on the eve of the new millennium and in the opening decade of the twenty-first century.
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Simply Read: An Innovative Press
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Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Illus. Iassen Ghiuselev. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2003.
Cinar, Lisa. The Day It All Blew Away. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2007.
Collodi, Carlo. The Adventures of Pinocchio. Illus. Iassen Ghiuselev. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2000.
Crew, Gary. The Viewer. Illus. Shaun Tan. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2003.
Crew, Gary. Memorial. Illus. Shaun Tan. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2003.
Czernecki, Stefan. Lilliput 5357. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2006.
Czernecki, Stefan. Ride ‘Em, Cowboy. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2004.
Glass, Eleri. The Red Shoes. Illus. Ashley Spires. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2008.
Grant, Joan. Cat and Fish. Illus. Neil Curtis. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2004.
Grant, Joan. Cat and Fish Go to See. Illus. Neil Curtis. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2006.
Grimm Brothers. The Queen Bee. Illus. Iassen Ghiuselev. Trans. Elizabeth James. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2003.
Gutierrez, Elisa. Picturescape. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2005.
Heshka, Ryan. ABC Spookshow. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2007.
Johnson, E. Pauline. The Lost Island. Illus. Atanas Matsoureff. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2004.
Jorgensen, Norman. In Flanders Fields. Illus. Brian Harrison-Lever. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2003.
Jossa, Isabelle. Ned Goes to Bed. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2005.
Lawson, Sue. My Gran’s Different. Illus. Caroline Magerl. Vancouver: Simply Read, 2005.
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Writing the Holocaust for Children: On the Representation of Unimaginable Atrocity
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Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian. The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager’s Story of War and Peace. 1994. Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2008
Kacer, Kathy, and Sharon E. McKay. Whispers from the Ghettos. Toronto: Puffin, 2009.
Watts, Irene. Goodbye Marianne: The Graphic Novel. Illus. Kathryn E. Shoemaker. Toronto: Tundra, 2008.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.003
The Participation Paradox, or Agency and Sociality in Contemporary Youth Cultures
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Negotiating Canadian Culture Through Youth Television: Discourse on Degrassi
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Byers, Michele, ed. Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures. Toronto: Sumach, 2005
Castellarin, Loretta, and Ken Roberts. Spike. Degrassi Junior High. Halifax: Lorimer, 2006.
Dunphy, Catherine. Caitlin. Degrassi Junior High. Halifax: Lorimer, 2006.
Ellis, Kathryn. Degrassi: Generations. Bolton, ON: Fenn, 2005.
Ellis, Kathryn. Joey Jeremiah. Degrassi Junior High. Halifax: Lorimer, 2006.
Nielsen, Susin. Snake. Degrassi Junior High. Halifax: Lorimer, 2006.
Torres, J. Suddenly Last Summer. Illus. Ramón Pérez. Degrassi The Next Generation Extra Credit 2. Bolton, ON: Fenn, 2006.
Torres, J. Turning Japanese. Illus. Ed Northcott. Degrassi The Next Generation Extra Credit 1. Bolton, ON: Fenn, 2006.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.000
Intertextual Resonances in Seven Novels
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Bow, James. The Unwritten Girl. Toronto: Dundurn, 2006.
Goobie, Beth. The Dream Where the Losers Go. Victoria: Orca, 2006.
Gregory, Nan. I’ll Sing You One-O. New York: Clarion, 2006.
Harvey-Fitzhenry, Alyxandra. Waking. Victoria: Orca, 2006.
McCann, James. Rancour. Canada: Simply Read, 2005.
Scharf, J. L. Grace and the Ice Prince. Saskatoon: Thistledown, 2006.
Walde, Christine. The Candy Darlings. Toronto: Penguin, 2007.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.000