Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Stories from the In Between
Herausgeber: West, Mark I.

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Produktbeschreibung

Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together a collection of essays in conversation with each other surrounding a widely untapped field of study in children’s and young adult literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781666938876
• ISBN-10: 1666938874
• Artikelnr.: 69925527

Autorenporträt

Mark I. West is professor in the English department at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring the Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult
Literature, Mark I. West
Part One: Essays Focusing on Themes and Genres
Chapter One: The Library as a Liminal Space: A Composite Portrait, Claudia
Mills
Chapter Two: "There's more to life than mops and pails": Liminal Spaces in
Picturebooks, Anne K. Phillips
Chapter Three: Negotiating Generational Conflict: Queer and Trans
Interventions in YA Fiction, Jonathan Alexander
Chapter Four: The Healing Power of Liminal Spaces in African American
Children's Literature, Mark I. West
Chapter Five: Asian Americans Find Liminal Spaces to Combat Racism and
Erasure, Katharine Kittredge and Paige D'Encarnacao
Chapter Six: Jouets Trouvés: Found Objects and Porthole Fantasies in
Children's Liminal Spaces, Scott G. Eberle
Chapter Seven: Secret Gardens and Spiritual Gestation: The Fecundity of
Liminal Metaphors in the Children's Literature of Frances Hodgson Burnett
and C. S. Lewis, Terry Lindvall
Part Two: Essays Focusing on Individual Novels
Chapter Eight: The Architecture of Girlhood: Gendered Spaces in Louisa
Tuthill's Reality; or the Millionaire's Daughter, Laura Hakala
Chapter Nine: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows as Horror:
Children, Motorcars, and the Liminal Space of the Road, Eric L. Tribunella
Chapter Ten: Riding "an enchanted horse with invisible wings": Velvet
Brown's Liminal Space in National Velvet, Kathy Merlock Jackson
Chapter Eleven: An Escape to Liminal Spaces in Katherine Paterson's Bridge
to Terabithia, Trina Marie Rumfelt
Chapter Twelve: Carrying My Family in a Suitcase: Exploring Liminal Space
in Christopher Paul Curtis's Bud, Not Buddy, Jan Susina
Chapter Thirteen: It's a Small Liminal World After All: Being on the Limbo
Ride in Libba Bray's Going Bovine, Michele D. Castleman
Chapter Fourteen: The Hope and Hardship of Liminality: Homelessness in
Katherine Applegate's Crenshaw, Paula T. Connolly
Chapter Fifteen: Double Consciousness and Liminality in Angeline Boulley's
Firekeeper's Daughter, Sarah Minslow
About the Contributors