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Author:   Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska ,  Mateusz Świetlicki ,  Agata Zarzycka
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   104
Weight:   0.008kg
ISBN:  

9789004682726

ISBN 10:   9004682724
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes 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

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"""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"

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Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies (University of Wrocław). She has published widely on the children’s book market, design and illustration. Her major recent work is Serie literackie dla dzieci i młodzieży w Polsce 1945–1989. Produkcja wydawnicza i ukształtowanie edytorskie [Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature Series in Poland 1945-1989: Book Market and Design] (Warszawa, 2014). Mateusz Świetlicki is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of English Studies and Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture. His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine. Agata Zarzycka is an Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies (University of Wrocław). She has recently published A Goth Reflection: Self-Fashioning and Popular Culture (Wrocław, 2019). Her research interests include literary studies focused on speculative fiction, gothic studies, game studies focused on video games and role-playing games, fan studies, subcultural and cultural studies. The editors are co-founders and members of The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław.

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