{"product_id":"alt-kid-lit-what-childrens-literature-might-be-paperback-softback-9781496851031","title":"Alt Kid Lit; What Children's Literature Might Be (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496851031","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAlt Kid Lit\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWhat Children's Literature Might Be\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKenneth B. Kidd (Edited by), Derritt Mason (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496851031\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 18 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlt Kid Lit \u003c\/i\u003eis precisely what the field of children’s and young adult literature scholarship needs: a bold, provocative, and exciting collection of essays that embrace nuanced, self-interrogating perspectives. It takes a necessary cannon to the concept of the canon.\" - Katharine Slater, associate professor of English at Rowan University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A vital provocation for scholars of children’s and young adult literature, in which twenty-three sharp thinkers challenge us to expand our definitions, center the underrepresented, and redraw the boundaries that haunt the field. As the essays in \u003ci\u003eAlt Kid Lit\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrate, if you want to change the paradigm, you first need to take the risks that lead to new ways of thinking. So. Accept that challenge. Start by reading this book.\" - Philip Nel, author of \u003ci\u003eWas the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNeed for Diverse Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAlt Kid Lit\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to think nimbly as it explores and challenges the borders of an evolving field, the study of texts for young people. This collection entices readers to consider the ways in which we delineate our discipline, what counts as scholarship, what makes a text worthy of critical attention, and which texts and young people are relegated to the margins. In the process, it complicates existing definitions of child agency, authorship, and readership by offering up new approaches and modes of thinking that expand, nuance, and trouble current assumptions about young people’s texts and cultures.\" - Annette Wannamaker, coordinator of the Children’s Literature Program at Eastern Michigan University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributions by Kris Alexander, Amanda K. Allen, Brianna Anderson, Catherine Burwell, Katharine Capshaw, Negin Dahya, Gabriel Duckels, Paige Gray, Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Natasha Hurley, Kenneth B. Kidd, Erica Law-Montes, Derritt Mason, Brandon Murakami, Tehmina Pirzada, Cristina Rhodes, Cristina Rivera, Jakob Rosendal, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Vivek Shraya, Victoria Ford Smith, Joshua Whitehead, and Shuyin Yu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAlt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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; shōnen anime; Jim Henson's \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Crystal\u003c\/i\u003e; 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, \u003ci\u003eAlt Kid Lit \u003c\/i\u003eshines light on materials, methodologies, and epistemologies that are sometimes underacknowledged in the field of children’s and young adult literature studies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739503882520,"sku":"9781496851031","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/alt-kid-lit-what-childrens-literature-might-be-paperback-softback-9781496851031","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}