Controversy and Children’s Literature: Introduction

In: Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy
Authors:
Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska
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Mateusz Świetlicki
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Agata Zarzycka
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Chapter
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1–6
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004683297_002

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Abstract

The introduction discusses the potential of the controversy concept as a research tool and examines its application in children’s literature studies. From an identification of reasons why the lens of controversy constitutes a promising approach for investigating particular aspects of literature for children and young adults, the chapter proceeds to outlining the structure of the book.

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Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy

Global and Transnational Perspectives

Series:  Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 104
Cover Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy
E-Book ISBN:
9789004683297
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
29 Aug 2023
Front Matter
Part 1 (G)local Controversies
Part 2 Transcultural Controversies
Chapter 8 Boys’ Friendship or Something More? Re-Examining Janusz Korczak’s King Matt the First and Its English Translations
Chapter 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
Chapter 10 Beguiling Bygones and Relapses into Barbarism: Censoring Old Children’s Literature in the Netherlands
Chapter 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)
Chapter 12 “I’m Not a Teapot”: The Controversy of (Post)Humanity in Selected Novels by Neal Shusterman
Chapter 13 “Behind the Bars, No World”: Brecht Evens’ Panther as an Ironic Response to Children’s Literature
Chapter 14 Two-Dad Families in Children’s Nonfiction Picturebooks
Chapter 15 The Children’s Literature Scholar as a Two-Headed Creature (Lofting and Damrosch)
Back Matter

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