The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

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By Claudia Nelson

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ebook

ISBN

9781032103594

Series

Routledge Literature Companions

Author

Claudia Nelson

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Release

30 November 2023

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Subjects

Children Literary Criticism Nonfiction

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Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children's literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations.

Offering five distinct sections, this volume:

  • Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children's literature
  • Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children
  • Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children's books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content
  • Maps how children's texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author's identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed "other," and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice
  • Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children's literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children's literature

    • Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

    Format

    ebook

    ISBN

    9781032103594

    Series

    Routledge Literature Companions

    Author

    Claudia Nelson

    Publisher

    Taylor & Francis

    Release

    30 November 2023

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    Subjects

    Children Literary Criticism Nonfiction
    The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture