- Tanja Nathanael
Edited Volume: Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom
Deadline for Submissions [Extended]:
December 1, 2021
Editors:
Sara Austin, Tanja Nathanael, Olivia Bushardt
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Children’s literature as a field is not bounded by geography, and so critical discussions of the children’s literary tradition outside of a US context appear frequently in journals ranging from The New England Reading Association, to The Lion and the Unicorn, and The Reading Teacher. In fact, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly dedicated the Winter 2018 issue to “Migration, Refugees, and Diaspora in Children's Literature.” Despite the abundance of critical work, pedagogical resources such as Evelyn B. Freeman and Barbara A. Lehman’s Global Perspectives in Children's Literature (2001), Freeman, Lehman, and Patricia Scharer’s Reading Globally (2010), Deanna Day, Jean Schroeder, Kathy Gnagey Short’s Teaching Globally: Reading the World Through Literature (2016), are often focused on the K-12 classroom.
This volume of original critical essays will expand current pedagogical models into the college classroom, while exploring children’s literature and literary traditions outside of the United States. We are interested in both how non US-centered children’s literature is taught within children’s literature courses, as well as how global children's literature can be used to frame undergraduate pedagogy outside of the children’s literature classroom. We are particularly interested in representing a diverse range of global perspectives as well as diverse critical approaches including English, education, religion, philosophy, sociology, history, political science, healthcare, gender studies, etc. Topics for chapters may include but are not limited to:
Americanization of international texts
Authenticity, agency, voice, identity and authorship
Awards and valuing modes of storytelling
Bodies, non-normative
Borders and peripheries
Climate futures (hope vs. despair)
Consumerism and capitalism
Critical literacies
Defining family and childhood
Diverse faiths
Ecotopias and environmentalism
Fantasy
Feminism in the 21st century
Genres and subgenres
Global youth activism
Healthcare, both physical and mental
Indigenous futures
Justice and policing
Monsters and monstrousness
Multi-lingual narratives
Myth and folktales
Reimagined histories
Queer, LBGTQIA+
Translation issues
In the form of a single Word file, please send proposals of 500-750 words, a brief biography, and contact information to Sara Austin, Tanja Nathanael, Olivia Bushardt at globalchildrenlit@gmail.com no later than 1 December 2021. Notification of proposal acceptance will occur no later than 1 February 2022. Acceptance into the collection will be based on completed essays of approximately 6000-10000 words submitted no later than 1 September 2022.