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Cameras and Constructs and Cancels, Oh My! Thinking Through Youth and Celebrity
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Duvall, Spring-Serenity, editor. Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formation. Peter Lang Inc., 2019.
Lyga, Barry, and Morgan Baden. The Hive. Kids Can Press, 2019.
Reid, Raziel. Kens. Penguin Teen, 2018.
Gershowitz, Jordan, and Sandhya Prabhat (illustrator). Ignore the Trolls. Pow! Kids Books, 2019
“Always Becoming”: Posthuman Subjectivity in Young Adult Fiction
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Tarr, Anita, and Donna R. White, editors. Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World. UP of Mississippi, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.001
Cross-Border Bodies: How to Fit When Your Body Does Not
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Brun-Cosme, Nadine and Aurélie Guillerey. Daddy Long Legs. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2017.
Cali, Davide and Sébastien Mourrain. The Tiny Tale of Little Pea. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2017.
Leng, Qin. I Am Small. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2018.
Renaud, Anne and Marie Lafrance. The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.001
Only Connect: Children’s Literature and Its Theory in the Extended Present
No full textWhile an unfolding backlash against globalization has resulted in a tightening of the borders that police our movement through space, the borders that structure our temporal experience have been made newly porous by technologies that alter the terms of our presence in that space. This paper argues that our current condition of ubiquitous connectivity—our constant interconnection and integration into larger flows of information and communication—has brought about a paradoxical anxiety of disconnection that finds expression in the field’s growing “kinship” movement. In the digital age, instantaneous communication butts up against infinite information, giving birth to the extended present—a temporality in which the borders of the now seem to be both ever diminishing and expanding. What does this mean for the temporal alterity that subsists between adult and child as theoretical constructs? What happens to the adult-child relationship in the age of the constant update? This paper examines to what extent the field’s current turn toward models that emphasize similarity—or “kinship”—over difference constitutes an attempt to reaffirm a continuity between past and present that is threatened by the rise of new media technologies, and ponders what the attempt to cohere our disparate temporalities into the present might mean for the future of the field and those on whose behalf it proposes to speak.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.001
Coming of Age in the Rio Grande Valley: Race, Class, Gender, and Generations in Narco Culture
No full textBased on ethnographic observations in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, this article examines the multiple, overlapping, criss-crossing axes of inequality that both shape and fracture the experiences of individual borderland residents. Instead of focusing on the national border, this article analyzes intersecting axes of social inequality and uses ethnographic data to describe social borders that divide and separate those living in the borderlands. Using ethnographic data culled from 133 young adults in focus group settings, this article merges the theory of intersectionality with border studies scholarship in order to analyze how socio-economic stratification, gender inequality, histories of racial discrimination, and generational differences map onto one another in a place characterized by narco violence. In essence, the article demonstrates how the lives of adolescents and young adults in the Rio Grande Valley are ensnared within a unique matrix of intersecting axes of inclusion and exclusion. The intersecting axes of gender, race, and class inequality unfold in a context of “narco culture,” where residents are not only living along the US-Mexico border, and within social webs of intersectional borders, but also on the border of legality/illegality.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.001
Representing Death in Children’s Literature: Border Crossings
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Dekko, Espen. Paws and Edward. Illustrated by Mari Kanstad Johnsen, Kids Can, 2019.
James, Matt. The Funeral. Groundwood Books, 2018.
Quan, Betty. Grandmother's Visit. Illustrated by Carmen Mok, Groundwood Books, 2018.
Young, Cheyanne. The Last Wish of Sasha Cade. Kids Can, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.002
Leaving Home: Stories about Immigration, Migration, and the Diaspora
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Charles, Veronika Martenova. The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story. Nimbus, 2017.
Díaz, Junot. Islandborn. Illustrated by Leo Espinosa, Penguin, 2018.
Gay, Marie-Louise. Mustafa. Groundwood, 2018.
Morales, Yuyi. Dreamers. Porter, 2018.
Tran-Davies, Nhung N. Ten Cents a Pound. Illustrated by Josée Bisaillon, Second Story, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.002