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Coloniality Of Animal Monstrous Othering In Children'S Books, Films, And Toys

by Donna Varga

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 This book critiques how wolves and other animals thought unlikeable are negatively portrayed and become targets of violence in materials directed toward young consumers. The author counters these portrayals by discussing materials that articulate harmonious animal-human interrelationships.
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Beyond Nancy Drew - U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction In The Twentieth Century

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 This edited collection recovers â€œlostâ€ girlsâ€™ series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine the role the heroinesâ€™ sociohistorical contexts play in the narrative plot lines as well as the seriesâ€™ popularity and relatability for readers.
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The Coloniality Of Animal Monstrous Othering In Childrenâ€™S Books, Films, And Toys

by Donna Varga

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 This book critiques how wolves and other animals thought unlikeable are negatively portrayed and become targets of violence in materials directed toward young consumers. The author counters these portrayals by discussing materials that articulate harmonious animal-human interrelationships.
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Beyond Nancy Drew - U.S. Girlsâ€™ Series Fiction In The Twentieth Century

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 This edited collection recovers â€œlostâ€ girlsâ€™ series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine the role the heroinesâ€™ sociohistorical contexts play in the narrative plot lines as well as the seriesâ€™ popularity and relatability for readers.
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Screening Children In Post-Apocalypse Film And Television

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 This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles as either harbingers of disaster or symbols of survival and hope.
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New Directions In Childhood Studies - Innocence, Trauma, And Agency In The Twenty-First Century

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 <i>New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century</i> acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children’s literature, film, and video games to explore the ways in which everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. In many ways, the essays show, the narratives blur traditional lines between children’s and adult content, taking children series as subjects while also guiding them through the processes of dealing with the particular challenges. Collectively, the essays develop a more contemporary construct of the American child and offer new insights into what that construction might mean for contemporary American society and culture.
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Cold War Children'S Television - Philadelphia As A Case Study

by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic

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 Vibiana Cvetkovic examines Philadelphia hosted children's cartoon shows which were broadcast in the industry's earliest days. This book explores the figure of the host with regard to Cold War notions of race, gender, and class and how the host challenged or reified these constructs.
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Childhood And Innocence In American Culture - Heartaches And Nightmares

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 This collection approaches the deconstruction of American â€œchildhoodâ€ from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of â€œchildhoodâ€â€"one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of â€œinnocence.â€
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Screening Children In Post-Apocalypse Film And Television

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 This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles as either harbingers of disaster or symbols of survival and hope.
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Cold War Children'S Television - Philadelphia As A Case Study

by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic

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 Vibiana Cvetkovic examines Philadelphia hosted children's cartoon shows which were broadcast in the industry's earliest days. This book explores the figure of the host with regard to Cold War notions of race, gender, and class and how the host challenged or reified these constructs.
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Childhood And Innocence In American Culture - Heartaches And Nightmares

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 This collection approaches the deconstruction of American â€œchildhoodâ€ from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of â€œchildhoodâ€â€"one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of â€œinnocence.â€
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The Sidekick Comes Of Age - How Young Adult Literature Is Shifting The Sidekick Paradigm

by Stephen M. Zimmerly

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 Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Three ways authors elevate sidekicks include letting sidekicks â€œevolveâ€ over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekickâ€™s characterization, and telling a story from the sidekickâ€™s perspective.
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Childhood, Agency, And Fantasy - Walking In Other Worlds

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 Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds draws on childhood studies scholarship to contextualize childrenâ€™s agentic entanglements with fantasy. Fantasy offers children opportunities for greater peer connectivity, identity exploration, holistic citizenry, and creative empowerment.
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Growing Up In Latin America - Child And Youth Agency In Contemporary Popular Culture

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 Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.
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School Gun Violence In Ya Literature - Representing Environments, Motives, And Impacts

by Laura A. Brown

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 Using Bronfenbrennerâ€™s Ecological Systems Theory and Peter Langmanâ€™s categorical descriptions of school shooters, this book analyzes several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence and the perpetrators while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers
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School Gun Violence In Ya Literature - Representing Environments, Motives, And Impacts

by Laura A. Brown

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 Using Bronfenbrennerâ€™s Ecological Systems Theory and Peter Langmanâ€™s categorical descriptions of school shooters, this book analyzes several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence and the perpetrators while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers
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Tweencom Girls - Gender And Adolescence In Disney And Nickelodeon Sitcoms

by Patrice A. Oppliger

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 This book looks at the portrayals of girls on Disney and Nickelodeon tweencoms. It covers character tropes like main girls, mean girls, cheerleaders, and adults as well as special topics such as popularity, friendships, and girl power.
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The Rhetorical Power Of Children'S Literature

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 This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in childrenâ€™s literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volumeâ€™s contributions interrogate how childrenâ€™s literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.
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Representing Agency In Popular Culture - Children And Youth On Page, Screen, And In Between

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 Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in childrenâ€™s lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.
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Posthumanist Readings In Dystopian Young Adult Fiction - Negotiating The Nature/Culture Divide

by Jennifer Harrison

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 This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.
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Female Adolescent Sexuality In The United States, 1850â€“1965

by Ann Kordas

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 This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature.
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Critical Childhood Studies And The Practice Of Interdisciplinarity - Disciplining The Child

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 This book analyzes figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics focusing on critical childhood studies. Looking at critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often the locus of larger societal crises, and unspoken prohibitions and taboos.
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Vigilante Feminists And Agents Of Destiny - Violence, Empowerment, And The Teenage Super/Heroine

by Laura Mattoon D'Amore

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 This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage super/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and sexual violence that has led to a loss of agency, and then tracks the way that their use of violence empowers them to reclaim agency over their lives and bodies. The author identifies these characters as vigilante feminist teenage super/heroines because they become vigilantes in order to protect other girls and young women from violence and create safer communities. The teenage super/heroines examined in this book are characters who have the ability—through super power, or supernatural and magical ability—to fight back against those who seek to cause them harm. They are a product of and a response to both the pervasive culture of violence against girls and women and a system that fails to protect girls and women from harm. While this book is part of a robust intellectual conversation about the role of girls and women in popular literature and culture and about feminist analyses of comics and YA literature, it is unique in its reading of violence as empowerment and in its careful tracing—and naming—of the teenage vigilante super/heroine, a characterization that is hugely popular and deserves this close reading.
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Childhood, Agency, And Fantasy - Walking In Other Worlds

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 Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds draws on childhood studies scholarship to contextualize childrenâ€™s agentic entanglements with fantasy. Fantasy offers children opportunities for greater peer connectivity, identity exploration, holistic citizenry, and creative empowerment.
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