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Informed by the idea that controversies reflect and thus help retrace the historically changing systems of norms in a given culture (since they often stem from attempts to transgress those norms), this chapter analyses selected examples of controversial publishing ventures on the Polish children’s book market in the 20th and early 21st century. The analysis seeks to establish to what extent adult mediators’ social expectations resulting from cultural conceptualisations of the child and childhood influence the book market and shape its mechanisms. The phenomena under discussion include both exemplary sources of controversy on the Polish children’s book market and the use of (potential) controversy as a strategy in publishing activities.

In: Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy

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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.

In: Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy
This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children’s and YA literature in contemporary culture.