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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 6 days, 10 hours ago<h1>Call for Papers for the Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung/GKJF) 2018</h1>
The second volume[1] of the open access, peer-reviewed Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung/GKJF takes the upcoming 50<sup>th</sup> ann…[Read more] -
Donald Haase deposited Kiss and Tell: Orality, Narrative, and the Power of Words in “Sleeping Beauty” in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoScholarship on the Sleeping Beauty tale has gone largely unappreciated. Underlying the story’s obvious themes and motifs—birth, death/sleep, rebirth—and complicating its gender dynamic is a preoccupation with orality and telling that gives the story a significant self-reflective dimension. This article examines how the tale reflects on story…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited Children, War, and the Imaginative Space of Fairy Tales in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoExplores how children of war and adults reflecting on their violent wartime childhoods have had recourse to the space of fairy tales to interpret their traumatic physical environments and their emotional lives within them. To that end, the article (1) considers the nature of time and space in the classic fairy tale; (2) establishes how the…[Read more]
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Philip Nel started the topic Philip Nel, MLA Children's & YA Lit Forum Executive Committee Candidate in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoGreetings!
The MLA tells me that this is the place to indicate my qualifications for the Executive Committee of the Children’s & YA Lit Forum. So —
If elected, I see my role as being an advocate for scholarship on children’s and young adult literature and culture. I would seek to maximize not only the number of children’s and YA lit panels at…[Read more]
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Charles A. Huttar deposited The Art of Detection in a World of Change: “The Silver Chair” and Spenser Revisited in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoC. S. Lewis’s fourth Narnian chronicle is considered as detective fiction, illustrating principles for solving a murder mystery, especially alertness to the difference between appearance and reality. The human protagonists nearly fail through carelessness, overconfidence, and forgetfulness, combined with the deceit and magic of a shape-shifting v…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week agoScott Westerfeld’s Uglies imagines a society where the body is under total control and the universal beauty of the body after dramatic reconstructive surgery at sixteen guarantees that everyone will be “equal.” To the young adult readership, such a world holds understandable appeal: the idea of avoiding the pains of coming to age in one’s own bod…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Children's Literature Crossing Borders (ACLA 2017) in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 1 year agoHi everyone,
Vanessa Joosen and I have proposed a children’s literature-related seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Utrecht July 7-9.
Here’s the CFP:
Children’s Literature Crossing Borders
Children’s literature has long been viewed as an agent for international peace. Fr…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited The Interstitial Body and Moral Formation:Third-Culture Displacement and Subject Formation in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago.Using the concept of “third culture” from social theory, this article examines Charles Kingsley’s use of displacement in his children’s book The Water Babies (1863). In trying to portray the site of moral formation, Kingsley displaces his central character Tom – the new, interstitial “third culture” subject. Through Tom’s displacement, Kingsle…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Japanese Children's Literature at ChLA in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoChildren’s Literature Association
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Call for Papers:
International Committee Focus Panel Session
Deadline: September 15, 201543rd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Hosted by The Ohio State UniversityThe Sheraton Columbus at Capitol Squar…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
Children's Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Linda Salem started the topic CFP Children's Literature Society at American Literature Association 2015 in the forum
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Children’s Literature Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798The Politics and Morality of Children’s Literature: From Left to Right
Authors use children’s literature to communicate their political and mor…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Comparative Children's Lit panel at MLA 2015 in the forum
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoPlease join us!
Watch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!
“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to…[Read more] -
Craig Svonkin started the topic MLA Children's Literature Sessions in the forum
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoIf you are going to be in Chicago for this year’s MLA, please do try to join us for some of the children’s literature sessions and events being held. I’ve also listed here sessions planned by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Discussion Group. The Children’s Literature and Comics Groups are co-hosting a cash bar on Friday night beginning at 7…[Read more]
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Craig Svonkin posted an update in the group
Children's Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoIf you are going to be in Chicago for this year’s MLA, please do try to attend some of the children’s literature sessions and events being held. I’ve also listed here sessions planned by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Discussion Group. The Children’s Literature and Comics Groups are hosting a joint cash bar on Friday night beginning at 7…[Read more]
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Craig Svonkin posted an update in the group
Children's Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoIf you are going to be in Chicago for this year’s MLA, please do try to attend some of the children’s literature sessions and events being held. I’ve also listed here sessions planned by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Discussion Group. The Children’s Literature and Comics Groups are hosting a joint cash bar on Friday night beginning at 7…[Read more]
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