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Family in Children?s and Young Adult Literature
 
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ISBN13:9781032217093
ISBN10:103221709X
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:272 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Language:English
Illustrations: 3 Illustrations, black & white; 3 Line drawings, black & white
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Family in Children?s and Young Adult Literature

 
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Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children?s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

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Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children?s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Written by intellectual leaders in the field from the UK, the Americas, Europe, and Australia, this collection of essays explores the significance of the family and of familial and quasi-familial relationships in texts by a wide range of authors, including the Grimms, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rudyard Kipling, Enid Blyton, Judy Blume, Jaqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Melvin Burgess, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and others. Author-based and critical survey essays explore evolving depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BAME families; migrant and refugee narratives; the popular tropes of the orphan protagonist and the wicked stepmother; sibling and intergenerational familial relationships; fathers and fatherhood; the anthropomorphic animal and surrogate family; and the fractured family in paranormal and dystopian YA literature. The breadth of essays in Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature encourages readers to think beyond the outdated but culturally privileged ?nuclear family? and is a vital resource for students, academics, educators, and practitioners.

Table of Contents:

Foreword


Ann Alston



Introduction: Exploding the Nuclear Family


Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig



Part I: Beyond Wicked Stepmothers and Absent(-minded) Fathers




  1. Where Are They Now? Manifestations of (Monstrous) Mothers in Fairy Tales


    2. Claudia Schwabe




  2. Perspectives on Fathers and Fatherhood within Children?s Literature: A Case Study of Katya Balen?s October, October


    3. Richard Charlesworth




  3. ?Shrewd sound-hearted maiden aunts?: The Aunt Figure in Children?s Literature


    4. Jane Suzanne Carroll




  4. "What?s the point of grandpa?": Grandparents in Children?s Literature


    5. Vanessa Joosen



    Part II: Home, Nation, and Empire



  5. Families Formed, Found and Fractured in the Children?s Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett


    6. Elisabeth Rose Gruner




  6. The Feral Child and the More-than-Human Family


    7. Jessica Straley




  7. A Gift to the Family of Britain: Depictions of African, Caribbean and Black British Families in British Children?s Literature after 1970


    8. Karen Sands-O?Connor and Phyllis Ramage




  8. Kinning with Picturebooks about La Frontera


    9. Macarena García-González and Evelyn Arizpe



    Part III: Growing Pains and Teenage Dreams



  9. Bowlby, Blyton, and Child Care Issues in The Famous Five series


    10. Nicholas Tucker




  10. From First Born to Second Fiddle: Empathy is an Argument if Your Name is Peter Hatcher in Judy Blume?s Fudge Books


    11. Joseph Michael Sommers




  11. "Mum?s no fun now": Constructing the Maternal in the Family Fictions of Jacqueline Wilson


    12. Kay Waddilove




  12. ?Chasing the Dragon?: The Anxieties of Family in the Fiction of Melvin Burgess


    13. Alyson Miller




  13. A Taste for the Secret: Tracing Secretive Families in Malorie Blackman?s Fiction


    14. Blanka Grzegorczyk




  14. Queering the Family in Young Adult Literature: Adam Silvera?s They Both Die at the End, Familial Disruption, and the Space of the Home


    15. Angel Daniel Matos



    Part IV: Alternative Families in Alternative Worlds



  15. Lost Boys, Found Boys: Masculinities and Families in J.K Rowling?s Harry Potter


    16. Eleanor Spencer




  16. Unhomely Domestic Spaces in Neil Gaiman?s Coraline


    17. Jade Dillon Craig




  17. Apple to Pomegranate: Vampires and Families in the Twilight Saga


    18. Lisa Nevarez




  18. Breeders, Rebels and Warriors: The Oppression of Adolescent Mothers in the Young Adult Dystopias The Lone City trilogy and Gather the Daughters


Malin Alkestrand