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Rosemary Sutcliff wins ChLA Phoenix Award - new film in the offing. See Anthony Lawton's site www.rosemarysutcliff.wordpress.com for more details. Anthony is interested to hear from scholars in the field who are working on Sutcliff's texts. |
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Children's Fiction about 9/11
Ethnic, National and Heroic Identities
By Jo Lampert
About the Book
In this pioneering and timely book, Lampert examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children’s literature about the attacks of September 11, 2001. Looking at examples including picture books, young adult novels, and a selection of DC Comics, Lampert finds the co-mingling of xenophobia and tolerance, the binaried competition between good and evil and global harmony and national insularity, and the glorification of both the commonplace hero and the super-human.
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Nations of childhood Call for papers for envisaged collection Nations of Childhood, addresses both the question of how children's literature constructs and represents different national experiences, and the challenge presented to the ‘nation-ness’ of children's literature by the changing/diminishing role of nation-states. In what sense are childhoods national? To what extent does nation in the modern sense depend on the idea of – and the construction of – childhood/s? |
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Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent
Literature
By: Kathryn James
Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. 
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