Alt kid lit what children's literature might be / edited by Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason.
| Other author | Kidd, Kenneth B. |
| Other author | Mason, Derritt. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Children's literature association series Children's Literature Association series. ^A1145039 |
| Contents | Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason -- Kid lit from beyond the grave: spiritualism, child mediums, and the haunting problem of child agency / Victoria Ford Smith -- Singing a "Sea Island Song": Alice Childress's responsive Black theater / Katharine Capshaw -- The seductions of "Little Red Riding Hood": on the thresholds of children's drawings / Jakob Rosendal -- Snanger danger: SS/HG fanfiction, kinship, and an affinity space model of children's and young adult literature / Amanda K. Allen -- Zine ecoactivism and pedagogies of hope in "World War 3 Illustrated" #46 / Brianna Anderson -- Emergency children's literature: some observations on pandemic picture books / Gabriel Duckels -- The case of "Jonny's" genre: an interview with Joshua Whitehead / Joshua Whitehead and Derritt Mason -- YA literature, "Plus Ultra": a case study of the Sh¿nen anime "My Hero Academia" / Brandon Murakami -- From melodrama to kitschy romance: alt kid media in India and Pakistan / Tehmina Pirzada -- "Bizarre Creatures" and the fans who love them: "The Dark Crystal" as alternative children's culture / Paige Gray -- Video games and young people's digital cultures: a panel discussion / Kristopher Alexander, Negin Dahya, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Catherine Burwell, and Derritt Mason -- The alt within: queerness, psychoanalysis, and children's literature as enigmatic signifier / Natasha Hurley -- "We're Americans too!": contingencies and contradictions in picture books about Japanese American incarceration / Gabrielle Atwood Halko -- Retomando el D©Ưa de los Muertos: death, life, and Latinx epistemology in children's literature / Cristina Rhodes -- Reimagining the "Alternative": sustaining representation of indigenous people and people of color through speculative fiction in "The Marrow Thieves" and "Ma©łanaland" / Erica Law-Montes and Cristina Rivera -- Silkpunk and agender childhoods in Noen Yang's "Tensorate" universe / Shuyin Yu -- Alt publishing for young people: an interview with Vivek Shraya / Vivek Shraya and Derritt Mason -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Abstract | "How do we think about children's and young adult literature? Children's literature is often defined through audience, so what happens when children are drawn to and claim genres not built expressly "for" them? To what extent do canonical formations tend to overwrite or obscure less visible efforts to create and promote material for the young? These are the driving questions of Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be. Contributors to the volume offer theoretical meditations on the category of children's and young adult literature as well as case studies of materials that complicate our understanding of such. Chapters attend to a diverse array of subjects including the "non-places" of children's literature; child mediums; Black theater for children; children's interpretive drawings; fanfiction; Latinx, Indigenous, and silkpunk speculative fiction; environmental zines; sho©Œþ́nen anime; Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal; South Asian television; and "emergency children's literature." The book also features interviews with two experimental writers about genre and alt-publishing and a roundtable conversation on video games and children's digital engagements. Building on diverse approaches including queer theory and postcolonial studies, Alt Kid Lit shines light on materials, methodologies, and epistemologies that are sometimes underacknowledged in the field of children's and young adult literature studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Alt kid lit Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024] 9781496851024 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023058472 |
| ISBN | 9781496851079 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781496851048 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781496851055 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781496851062 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (trade paperback) |