Children’s Literature in Place : Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture

Children's Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children's Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children's literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of children's culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of children's culture. The places and spaces of children's literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in children's literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in children's and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in children's literature, media, and culture and contributes to this growing and relevant field by showcasing various scholarly aspects and approaches to children's literature, and the place of children's literature in the context of international scholarship. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Children’s Places, Spaces, Literature, and Culture Part I: Place, Space, and Identity 1 “Xanadu Hidden in the Heart of Bootle”: Place and Foreignness in The Unforgotten Coat 2 Skiing and Being Swedish: Taking a Cold Look at Winter Picturebooks 3 Cows on the Cover: Dairy Queen and Regional Literature 4 John Green’s Peopled Places and Abandoned Spaces Part II: Aesthetics of Place 5 Confronting “Un-London”: Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart Trilogy and the Rejection of Nostalgic Landscapes 6 Room to Imagine? Authoritative Architecture in J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World 7 A Sleuthing Place: Child Detectives and Their Offices Part III: (Dis)placement and Mobility 8 “Girl. Wherever the F*ck You Want”: The Contingent Mobilities of Literary Adolescence 9 Whirlpooling Feminist Rage: Gang Rape-Revenge in Foul Is Fair and The Nowhere Girls 10 A Town Should Have Twenty-Five People: Harriet M. Welsch’s Small-Town New York City 11 How to Develop a Children’s Culture Study Abroad Program in Three Easy Steps Part IV: Place Attachment 12 Making Home: The Queer Ecological Possibilities of Children’s Picturebooks 13 Maralinga – The Aṉangu Story: Country, Multimodality, and Living Space 14 Re-placing Indigenous Land and Children Within the Anthropocene: Carole Lindstrom’s We Are Water Protectors 15 Beyond the Eco-Warrior Child in Children’s Literature Part V: Spectrality and Memory 16 Dearly Departed: The Arrival’s Spectral Refugee 17 Someone’s Missing: The Spectral Landscape of Martial Law in Selected Children’s Picturebooks from the Philippines 18 Charlotte Temple, a Literary Landmark, and Nineteenth-Century Notions of Adolescence Part VI: Placing Readers 19 Space, Place, and Readers: Understanding Setting as “Placing-in-Process” 20 Child and Teen Demographics in Movement through the Fantastic Place of London 21 Where Does Alice Come from? Places in Translation and Adaptation 22 Canon Out of Place: Centering Lived Realities in Neurodivergent Middle Grade Literature Part VII: Virtual and Archival Spaces 23 “The Ickabog Illustration Competition”: Showcasing Reader Responses and a Transnational Poetics of Place 24 Places and Spaces of/for Reading in Children’s Literature: From Mysterious Dusty Libraries to Cities Made of Books 25 Pilgrimages in the First Season of The Flying House Anime Series 26 An All-White World? The Cartography We Create in Adaptations for Young People Contributors Index