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Prizing Children's Literature - The Cultural Politics of Children's Book Awards (Hardcover)
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Prizing Children's Literature - The Cultural Politics of Children's Book Awards (Hardcover)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early
twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary
prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and
canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles
alone, but despite the profound impact of children's book awards,
scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book
is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone
children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With
attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers
original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their
consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the United
States. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards
and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and
elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural
capital. Sections interrogate the complex and often unconscious
ideological work of prizing, the ongoing tension between formalist
awards and so-called identity-based awards - all the more urgent in
light of the "We Need Diverse Books" campaign - the ever-morphing
forms and parameters of prizing, and scholarly practices of
prizing. Among the many awards discussed are the Pura Belpre Medal,
the Inky Awards, the Canada Governor General Literary Award, the
Printz Award, the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Phoenix Award,
and the John Newbery Medal, giving due attention to prizes for
fiction as well as for non-fiction, poetry, and film. This volume
will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social
history, book history, sociology, education, library and
information science, and anyone concerned with children's
literature.
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