El aumento explosivo en las ventas de literatura infantil y juvenil (LIJ) denota un cambio importante en las letras mexicanas de los ultimos 40 anos. Literatura infantil y juvenil mexicana: Entrevistas entrega el primer libro de entrevistas con sus figuras pioneras. Diecinueve de estos escritores para ninas y ninos brindan animadas respuestas a las preguntas profundamente informadas, antecedidas por tres entrevistas introductorias con dos editores y una critica: Daniel Goldin y Socorro Venegas, del Fondo de Cultura Economica, y Laura Guerrero Guadarrama, academica de la Universidad Iberoamericana. Las entrevistas fechadas entre 2018 a 2019 incluyen conversaciones con autoras y autores establecidos, como Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Molina, Francisco Hinojosa, Juan Villoro, Maria Baranda y Carlos Pellicer, ademas de algunos novatos, como el influyente bloguero Adolfo Cordova y el novelista de tematica gay para jovenes, Esteban Hinojosa Rebolledo. Entre los entrevistados prolificos se incluyen los escritores de sagas Tono Malpica y Jaime Alfonso Sandoval, y las cuentistas de bestsellers Vivian Mansour y Monica Brozon. El folclor mexicano aparece en obras de Norma Munoz Ledo y Martha Riva Palacio Obon, mientras otras abordan historias de migracion mexicana, como los textos de Ana Romero, Yuyi Morales y Duncan Tonatiuh. Incluso otros publican aventuras de indole etica, como Veronica Murguia y Alberto Chimal. Las 22 entrevistas son lectura indispensable para especialistas y una divertida introduccion para principiantes.

Esta coleccion de articulos se dirige a la disciplina de las adaptaciones literarias infantiles y/o juveniles con la intencion de traspasar las fronteras que convencionalmente separan la cultura canonica de la cultura popular. El publico infantil y juvenil cada vez se decanta mas por discursos narrativos provenientes del arte cinematografico, el comic o los videojuegos, en detrimento de los textos tradicionalmente considerados literarios. El prolifico ambito de los videojuegos y los comics, que ilustra la impronta de las nuevas textualidades en el imaginario infantil y juvenil, recibe especial atencion. En consonancia con las ultimas tendencias del publico, esta coleccion recoge desde trabajos que analizan la revitalizacion de un mito medieval en formato comic (El Preste Juan en "Avataars"), hasta estudios sobre los ultimos exitos del cine de animacion ("El Bosque Animado") o nuevas perspectivas sobre las adaptaciones de clasicos infantiles literarios y cinematograficos ("Mujercitas", "Marcelino pan y vino"). Los autores, especialistas en cada uno de los temas expuestos, abordan los textos adaptados desde una rigurosa perspectiva academica que incluye las ultimas tendencias en estudios culturales, teoria de la recepcion y teoria digital.

Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. "Bloody Murder" is the first full-length critical study of this pervasive theme of murder in children's literature. Through rereadings of well-known works, such as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and "The Outsiders," Michelle Ann Abate explores how acts of homicide connect these works with an array of previously unforeseen literary, social, political, and cultural issues. Topics range from changes in the America criminal justice system, the rise of forensic science, and shifting attitudes about crime and punishment to changing cultural conceptions about the nature of evil and the different ways that murder has been popularly presented and socially interpreted.

"Bloody Murder" adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime. Abate argues that when narratives for children are considered along with other representations of homicide in the United States, they not only provide a more accurate portrait of the range, depth, and variety of crime literature, they also alter existing ideas about the meaning of violence, the emotional appeal of fear, and the cultural construction of death and dying.

Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor Watts The Brownies' Book occupies a special place in the history of African American children's literature. Informally the children's counterpart to the NAACP's The Crisis magazine, it was one of the first periodicals created primarily for Black youth. Several of the objectives the creators delineated in 1919 when announcing the arrival of the publication-"To make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race" and "To make colored children realize that being 'colored' is a beautiful, normal thing"-still resonate with contemporary creators, readers, and scholars of African American children's literature. The meticulously researched essays in A Centennial Celebration of "The Brownies' Book" get to the heart of The Brownies' Book "project" using critical approaches both varied and illuminating. Contributors to the volume explore the underappreciated role of Jessie Redmon Fauset in creating The Brownies' Book and in the cultural life of Black America; describe the young people who immersed themselves in the pages of the periodical; focus on the role of Black heroes and heroines; address The Brownies' Book in the context of critical literacy theory; and place The Brownies' Book within the context of Black futurity and justice. Bookending the essays are, reprinted in full, the first and last issues of the magazine. A Centennial Celebration of "The Brownies' Book" illuminates the many ways in which the magazine-simultaneously beautiful, complicated, problematic, and inspiring-remains worthy of attention well into this century.

Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companion illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given to both texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and major genres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picture books. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children's literature and the impact of publishing practices. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this Companion will be essential reading for all students and scholars of children's literature, offering original readings and new research that reflects the latest developments in the field.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, they are also complex textures of mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes. Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshire-Cat, the King and Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and many other extraordinary characters have made them masterpieces of carefree nonsense, yet they also appeal to adults on a quite different level. Layers of satire, allusion, and symbolism about Victorian culture and politics, as well as revelations about the intricate subconscious problems of their author, add to their fascination and make them impossible to classify. This new edition explores the phenomenal range of reference, and the paradoxical appeal of two of the most inventive books in world literature. It also includes an episode removed by Carroll from the proofs of Through the Looking-Glass, called 'The Wasp in a Wig'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children argues for the benefits and potential of "primary science fiction," or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Science fiction for children is often disregarded due to common misconceptions of childhood. When children are culturally portrayed as natural and simple, then they seem like a poor audience for the complex scientific questions brought up by the best science fiction. The books and the children who read them tell another story. Using three empirical studies and over 350 children's books including If I Had a Robot Dog, Bugs in Space, and Commander Toad in Space, Equipping Space Cadets presents interdisciplinary evidence that science fiction and children are compatible after all. Primary science fiction literature includes many high-quality books that cleverly utilize the features of children's literature formats in order to fit large science fiction questions into small packages. In the best of these books, authors make science fiction questions accessible and relevant to children of various reading levels and from diverse backgrounds and identities. Equipping Space Cadets does not stop with literary analysis, but also presents the voices of real children and practitioners. The book features three studies: a survey of teachers and librarians, quantitative analysis of lending records from school libraries across the United States, and coded read-aloud sessions with elementary school students. The results reveal how children are interested in and capable of reading science fiction, but it is the adults, including the most well-intentioned librarians and teachers, who hinder children's engagement with the genre due to their own preconceptions about the genre and children.

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage befassen sich mit Kinder- und Jugendliteratur vornehmlich unter dem Aspekt des Spannungsverhaltnisses von Erziehungsvorstellung und literarischer AEsthetik. Die Marchen der Bruder Grimm, die Bildergeschichten von Wilhelm Busch, Johanna Spyris Heidi-Roman, Rowlings Harry Potter, Sendaks Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen, Bucher von Henning Mankell, von Joyce Carol Oates, von Nicky Singer, von Sigrid Zeevaert und anderen kommen ausfuhrlicher zur Sprache. Besondere Berucksichtigung finden das Motiv des Essens und Trinkens in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und die Identitatsfindung mit den damit verbundenen Entwicklungsaufgaben. Eroertert werden auch Fragen der Didaktik und Methodik der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.

Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides-and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it-is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit and explicit forms of racism. The book fearlessly examines topics both vivid-such as The Cat in the Hat's roots in blackface minstrelsy-and more opaque, like how the children's book industry can perpetuate structural racism via whitewashed covers even while making efforts to increase diversity. Rooted in research yet written with a lively, crackling touch, Nel delves into years of literary criticism and recent sociological data in order to show a better way forward. Though much of what is proposed here could be endlessly argued, the knowledge that what we learn in childhood imparts both subtle and explicit lessons about whose lives matter is not debatable. The text concludes with a short and stark proposal of actions everyone-reader, author, publisher, scholar, citizen- can take to fight the biases and prejudices that infect children's literature. While Was the Cat in the Hat Black? does not assume it has all the answers to such a deeply systemic problem, its audacity should stimulate discussion and activism.

This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and reading has defined his own life. Now he guides young readers and the grown-ups in their lives on an entertaining journey 'through the wardrobe' to a greater awareness of how literature from across the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human. Sutherland introduces great classics in his own irresistible way, enlivening his offerings with humor as well as learning: Beowulf, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, the Romantics, Dickens, Moby Dick, The Waste Land, Woolf, 1984, and dozens of others. He adds to these a less-expected, personal selection of authors and works, including literature usually considered well below 'serious attention' - from the rude jests of Anglo-Saxon runes to The Da Vinci Code. With masterful digressions into various themes - censorship, narrative tricks, self-publishing, taste, creativity, and madness - Sutherland demonstrates the full depth and intrigue of reading. For younger readers, he offers a proper introduction to literature, promising to interest as much as instruct. For more experienced readers, he promises just the same.

Der Band weist essayistisches Schreiben erstmalig in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur nach. Dabei sind die ausgewahlten Texte ein Beitrag zur reflexiven Auseinandersetzung mit einer unvollkommenen und komplexen Welt. Zunachst wird eine UEbersicht uber den Forschungsstand zu Essay und Essayismus gegeben. Anschliessend werden vier Modi des essayistischen Verfahrens herausgearbeitet und auf Texte von Walter Benjamin, Christoph Hein, Bibi Dumon Tak und Sarah Michaela Orlovsky angewandt. Zwischen den Kapiteln bieten essayistische Passagen eine Verknupfung. Auf den Einzelanalysen aufbauend diskutiert die Autorin gattungstypologische Fragen und ein essayistisches Bildungsverstandnis.

In den Beitragen dieses Bandes setzen sich an Hochschulen Lehrende verschiedener Generationen mit den eigenen kindlichen und jugendlichen Lektureerfahrungen auseinander. Wenn es um die Auswahl zu behandelnder kinder- und jugendliterarischer Texte in Seminaren an Hochschulen geht, wird nur zu oft auf Werke zuruckgegriffen, die in der eigenen Kindheit und Jugend gelesen wurden und zu denen ein affektives Verhaltnis fortbesteht. Das aktuelle kinder- und jugendliterarische Angebot ist von verwirrender Vielfalt; gleichzeitig fehlt es an einer stabilen Kanonbildung auf diesem literarischen Feld. So bietet sich den Lehrenden ein biografisch-lesesozialisatorischer Zugriff als Loesungsweg an. Dabei erweist sich die Relekture von in der Kindheit gelesenen Werken als eine (Wieder-)Entdeckung ungeahnter literarischer Schatze.

Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more frequently in film, on television, and in video games. This explosion of queer representation, however, has prompted new forms of longstanding cultural anxieties about adolescent sexuality. What makes for a good "coming out" story? Will increased queer representation in young people's media teach adolescents the right lessons and help queer teens live better, happier lives? What if these stories harm young people instead of helping them? In Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, Derritt Mason considers these questions through a range of popular media, including an assortment of young adult books; Caper in the Castro, the first-ever queer video game; online fan communities; and popular television series Glee and Big Mouth. Mason argues themes that generate the most anxiety about adolescent culture - queer visibility, risk taking, HIV/AIDS, dystopia and horror, and the promise that "It Gets Better" and the threat that it might not - challenge us to rethink how we read and engage with young people's media. Instead of imagining queer young adult literature as a subgenre defined by its visibly queer characters, Mason proposes that we see "queer YA" as a body of transmedia texts with blurry boundaries, one that coheres around affect - specifically, anxiety - instead of content.

'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...' The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs. Regarded from their inception both as uncosy nursery stories and as raw material for the folklorist the tales were in fact compositions, collected from literate tellers and shaped into a distinctive kind of literature. This new translation mirrors the apparent artlessness of the Grimms, and fully represents the range of less well-known fables, morality tales, and comic stories as well as the classic tales. It takes the stories back to their roots in German Romanticism and includes variant stories and tales that were deemed unsuitable for children. In her fascinating introduction, Joyce Crick explores their origins, and their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Kim Reynolds, Jane Rosen, and Michael Rosen present a new anthology of radical writings for children from the first half of the twentieth century. In the years 1900 to 1960, large sections of the British population embraced a spectrum of left-wing positions with a view to maintaining peace and creating a more just, less class riven, more planned, and more enjoyable society for all. Children's books and periodicals were a central part of radical activity since the young were expected not just to inherit but also to help make this new society, and reading was regarded as the most direct way of helping them acquire the skills for this task. From alphabets through picture books, periodicals, information books, plays, song-books, pamphlets, and novels, many works of children's literature leaned left, but with the possible exception of references to Geoffrey Trease's Bows Against the Barons (1934), a Marxist retelling of the Robin Hood story, it is almost impossible to realise this from standard accounts of this period. This anthology contains a wide selection of the kinds of materials that left-wing and progressive parents would have wanted their children to read and which children understood as part of their initiation into a politically radical class.

Left Out presents an alternative and corrective history of writing for children in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1949 a number of British publishers, writers, and illustrators included children's literature in their efforts to make Britain a progressive, egalitarian, and modern society. Some came from privileged backgrounds, others from the poorest parts of the poorest cities in the land; some belonged to the metropolitan intelligentsia or bohemia, others were working-class autodidacts, but all sought to use writing for children and young people to create activists, visionaries, and leaders among the rising generation.Together they produced a significant number of both politically and aesthetically radical publications for children and young people. This 'radical children's literature' was designed to ignite and underpin the work of making a new Britain for a new kind of Briton. While there are many dedicated studies of children's literature and childrens' writers working in other periods, the years 1910-1949 have previous received little critical attention. In this study, Kimberley Reynolds shows that the accepted characterisation of inter-war children's literature as retreatist, anti-modernist, and apolitical is too sweeping and that the relationship between children's literature and modernism, left-wing politics, and progressive education has been neglected.

Die Adoleszenz geht nicht selten mit psychischen Krankheiten einher; mitunter erscheint sie selbst als eine Krankheit, die uberwunden werden muss. Die Nahe von Adoleszenz und psychischer Krankheit ist ein prominentes Thema von Jugenderzahlungen und Romanen der Zeit um 1900 und um 2000. Die berucksichtigten deutschsprachigen Adoleszenz- und Krankheitsdarstellungen beider Zeitabschnitte ahneln sich auf erstaunliche Weise. Neigten um die Jahrhundertwende adoleszente Figuren vermehrt zur Hysterie, so leiden sie um die Jahrtausendwende vielfach unter Magersucht. Beide Leiden erscheinen als Strategien, den wahrend der Adoleszenz sich einstellenden psychischen Konflikten zu begegnen, diese zu verarbeiten und durch koerperliche Signale nach aussen hin sichtbar zu machen. Sowohl die Hysterie als auch die Magersucht kommunizieren uber den Koerper.

Having a good working knowledge of children's literature is vital for primary teachers; the best way to develop switched-on young readers is to ensure they get access to high-quality age-appropriate material that engages and inspires them. This book explores the rich and varied world of children's literature and how it can be used in teaching to promote reading for pleasure and create lifelong readers. This new edition has been completely updated to include: - 5 brand new chapters covering Knowledge & skills, Classics, Illustrated fiction & graphic novels, Non-fiction, and Humour - New expert voice features providing commentaries from educators, literary experts and authors such as Lucy Worsley - Up to date book lists featuring recent and more diverse literature and authors - New practical activities and case studies show casing children's books and how to use them in the classroom - Further reading links to take students further

Das Motiv des Essens ist in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur allgegenwartig - und bisher dennoch kaum erforscht. Dabei weist es weit uber seine unmittelbare Koerperlichkeit hinaus und tragt als formen- und funktionsreiches Motiv zur Gestaltung literarischer Welten bei. Anhand exemplarischer Texte der Aufklarung, der Romantik und des Biedermeier lotet die Studie aus, wie sich im Mikrokosmos des Essens gesellschaftliche Makrostrukturen und epochenspezifische Konzepte von Kindheit offenbaren. Damit wendet sich die Studie erstmals dem uberraschend vielschichtigen Potenzial kinderliterarischer Essensinszenierungen zu und liefert nicht nur einen innovativen Forschungsbeitrag zur Literaturwissenschaft, sondern auch zum interdisziplinaren Diskurs um Essen, Kultur und Gesellschaft.

In historischen und zeitgeschichtlichen Jugendromanen uber Auswanderung, Flucht und Vertreibung, soweit in den letzten Jahren erschienen, spielt das Thema des Heimatverlustes eine zentrale Rolle. Es geht in diesen Texten allerdings um mehr als nur den ausseren Vorgang des Reisens oder der Migration; sie lassen sich auch als verkappte Schilderungen eines inneren Vorgangs, einer psychischen Entwicklung lesen. Sie handeln nicht zuletzt auch vom Verlassen der Kindheit, von der Bewaltigung der Adoleszenz und von der Erreichung bzw. der Verfehlung eines reifen Erwachsenenstatus. Wir haben es in gewissem Ausmass stets auch mit psychologischen, mit Entwicklungsromanen zu tun. Der wie immer sentimental aufgeladene Ruckblick auf die Heimat gilt im Grunde genommen der verlorenen Kindheit. Die Arbeit deckt einen Mechanismus der doppelten Bedeutung auf, der fur viele andere Jugendromane charakteristisch ist, die auf den ersten Blick frei von aller (Entwicklungs-)Psychologie sind.

Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Erzahlen vom Tod im Bilderbuch in historischer und gattungstheoretischer Perspektive und bildet anhand eines Textkorpus' von 287 deutschen bzw. ins Deutsche ubersetzten Titeln die Entwicklung von 1945 bis 2011 ab. Entwickelt wird ein narratologisches Modell der Bilderbuchanalyse, das unter Berucksichtigung von Erfahrungswerten der Sterbeforschung in den Einzelanalysen zur Anwendung kommt. Die Untersuchung fachert ein breites Spektrum von Motiven, von realistischen und phantastischen, religioesen und philosophischen Darstellungskonzepten auf. Eine besondere Rolle spielen Bilderbucher uber das Sterben und den Tod von Kindern und die daran nachgewiesene Subgattung des psychologischen Bilderbuchs.

The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to the world of children's literature. Its 3,500 entries cover every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks; school stories to science fiction; comics to children's hymns. Originally published in 1983, the Companion has been comprehensively revised and updated by Daniel Hahn. Over 900 new entries bring the book right up to date. A whole generation of new authors and illustrators are showcased, with books like Dogger, The Hunger Games, and Twilight making their first appearance. There are articles on developments such as manga, fan fiction, and non-print publishing, and there is additional information on prizes and prizewinners. This accessible A to Z is the first place to look for information about the authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature, as well as the stories and characters at their centre. Written both to entertain and to instruct, the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to Children's Literature is a reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without.