Jeunesse - Young People, Texts, Cultures (E-Journal)
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Children's Literature and the Classics
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Hodkinson, Owen, and Lovatt, Helen, editors. Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. I.B. Tauris, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.002
Anarchist Youth in Rural Canada: Technology, Resistance, and the Navigation of Space
No full textHow do young people navigate the intersections of transnational forms of technology and local political organizing? This ethnographic research asks how anarchist, activist youth in rural Canada are constructing politically meaningful spaces both online and offline. I think closely on the creation of, and play with, physical, symbolic, and social boundaries and texts (through online forums and the creation of zines), as well as how physical and online activism networks were created outside urban centres. In addition to analyzing the different strategies these youth mobilized to express their political identities and activism, both in rural Canada and within different online forums, I explore in particular how anarchist youth create and maintain global networks in reaction to their experiences of social, economic, and political precarity in national and transnational climates.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.002
The Child’s Place in Pop Music
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Rekret, Paul. Down with Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence. Repeater, 2017.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.002
Digging in to the Alphabet Soup: Exploring Trends and Embracing Change in LGBTQ+ YA Literature
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Jenkins, Christine A., and Michael Cart. Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature: LGBTQ+ Content since 1969. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.001
Intermedial Borders and Global Fairy-Tale Cultures
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Greenhill, Pauline, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc, editors. The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures. Routledge, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.001
Considering the Transnational Cultures and Texts of Canadian Youth
Full text linkIntroduction to the Special Section
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.001
Plurilingualism and Transnational Identities in a Francophone Minority Classroom
No full textIn francophone minority schools in British Columbia, Canada, significant numbers of students are plurilingual. In this paper, I explore their attempts to negotiate transnational identities in a grade six classroom. Plurilingual students may use different resources to negotiate subject positions, but I focus on how one student, Alexandra—an eleven-year-old plurilingual student who spoke French, English, and Polish—used her linguistic and cultural resources to negotiate subject positions as transnational. My analysis showed that Alexandra’s subject positions as transnational were not accepted or valorized as legitimate.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.001
Youth-Engaged Art-Based Research in Cape Breton: Transcending Nations, Boundaries and Identities
No full textIn 2017, in conjunction with celebrations of 150 years of Canadian Confederation and with funding from government programs, young people from across Cape Breton Island were invited to participate in a performance creation project to explore narratives and experiences of migration and encounter. Youth (ranging in age from 7 to 19) from disparate communities, including Membertou Mic’maq Reserve, Chéticamp (an Acadian, Francophone community), Étoile de l’Acadie (a French immersion community in Sydney), and Whitney Pier (a community of immigrant cultures, primarily from Barbados, Italy, Newfoundland, Poland, Croatia and Ukraine) all met in their own communities. They listened to elders discuss their own experiences of migration and encounter, and then responded by creating new performance pieces grounded in song, dance, film (including new technologies such as virtual reality and 360 degree cameras), spoken word and story. They will come together on October 22nd to share their creative work with one another and with public audiences. I propose an examination of issues that arose during the creative process, and young participants’ post-process reflections, according to each of the ways in which Vertovec (1999) has identified transnationalism. Interpretations of the Cape Breton youths’ own senses of rooted place is positioned in relation to transnational experiences present within their communities. These young people’s expressions of the local (for example, Acadian step dance and Mi’kmaq drumming) morphs into expressions of the transnational (for example, hip hop and pop music production); musical expressions use so-called traditional instruments (bag pipes or hand drums), and also use DJ mixing techniques, djembe, Acadian folk music, and Elvis. Problematizing assumptions about what it is to be a Cape Bretoner, and interrogating how migration and resulting encounter have shaped how these young people choose to express themselves, this paper examines how these young people simultaneously express and contest transnationalism.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2018.001