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Book SynopsisThis collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children’s and YA literature in contemporary culture.
Trade Review"The essays in this volume contain impactful, useful, and innovative new approaches to each of the different controversies covered. As a whole, these essays contribute to ongoing discussions in the field, and the essays will also serve individually as vector points for new conversations in the field." - Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State University
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Controversy and Children’s Literature: Introduction Agata Zarzycka, Mateusz Świetlicki and Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska Part 1 (G)Local Controversies 1 Controversy on the Children’s Book Market in Poland and Its Cultural and Social Background Bożena Hojka and Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska 2 Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Topics and Polish Young Adult Literature Monika Woźniak 3 Being Controversial in Scandinavia: An Iconotextual Analysis of Selected Norwegian and Danish Picturebooks Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska 4 Political vs. Personal: Gender-Role Formation in the Works of Ukrainian Female Children’s Writers in the 1930s Snizhana Zhygun 5 The Controversial Truth: Postmemory and the Great Terror in Yulia Yakovleva’s The Raven’s Children and Eugene Yelchin’s Breaking Stalin’s Nose Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg 6 Controversies over the Holocaust and the Greek Civil War: Painful Memories in Greek Children’s Books Meni Kanatsouli 7 Trauma Representation and Aestheticization in North American Young Adult Holocaust Literature Talia Crockett Part 2 Transcultural Controversies 8 Boys’ Friendship or Something More? Re-Examining Janusz Korczak’s King Matt the First and Its English Translations Joanna Dybiec-Gajer 9 Annotated Editions as a Misappropriation of the Author’s Voice and of Children’s Reading: Some Polish Editions of Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault Barbara Kaczyńska 10 Beguiling Bygones and Relapses into Barbarism: Censoring Old Children’s Literature in the Netherlands Charlotte van Bergen 11 Controversies of Authentic Adolescent Realism in Isabel Quintero’s Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014) and Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It (2015) Jennifer Mooney 12 “I’m Not a Teapot”: The Controversy of (Post)Humanity in Selected Novels by Neal Shusrerman Anna Bugajska 13 “Behind the Bars, No World”: Brecht Evens’ Panther as an Ironic Response to Children’s Literature Katarzyna Smyczyńska 14 Two-Dad Families in Children’s Nonfiction Picturebooks Angela Yannicopoulou 15 The Children’s Literature Scholar as a Two-Headed Creature (Lofting and Damrosch) Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel Index of Persons
