Title: Frontiers in American children's literature /
Authors: Clark, Dorothy Goldbart,; Salem, Linda C.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Children's literature, American History and criticism.; Children's literature, American Themes, motives.; Violence in literature.; Children's literature, American
Contents: Remembering to forget : historical trauma, paratext, and visual rhetoric in M. T. Anderson's The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing / Anastasia Ulanowicz -- Defying definition : borders and belonging in José Cruz Gonzáz's The highest heaven / Oona Hatton -- Who I was, who I am, who I want to be : an analysis of emotional survival in young adult literature / Melanie D. Koss and Nance S. Wilson -- Slavery on their minds : representing the institution in picture books / Raphael E. Rogers -- Clarence and Corinne; or, God's Way : Mrs. A. E. Johnson's black voice lessons / April C. Logan -- Haitian female revolutionaries and history plays : reforming black nationalism / Katharine Capshaw -- Ambiguity, hypocrisy, and accuracy in YA African American Civil War literature / Kathleen Nigro -- Language revitalization, Anishinaabemowin, and Erdrich's The Birchbark House series / Margaret Noodin -- Shoring up The Birchbark House / Anne K. Phillips -- Resistance of the liminal in Eric Gansworth's If I ever get out of here / Michelle Pagni Stewart -- Pre-9/11 and post-9/11 readings of Russell Hoban's Monsters / Alida Allison -- The changeling and the search for identity : bifurcation, oppression, and abjection in Eloise McGraw's The Moorchild / Emily Thomas -- "Blood is not destiny, no matter what others may believe" : Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and complications of the monster / Laura Nicosia -- The continuing influence of graphic novelist and children's book illustrator, Lynd Ward / Steven Herb --The Edward Gorey personal library : evidencing insights / Linda Salem -- Twilight online fandom : Cixous' Écriture Féminine and the digital text / Norma Aceves -- Beyond the walls : mapping the experiences of communism and transcultural engagement in Peter Ss̕'s The wall and A small tall tale from the far far north / Zara Rix.