Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving Stories (Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 13)

Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed for youth. With an emphasis on national literatures and international scholarship, it examines a variety of storytelling forms, formats, genres, and media crafted for readers ranging from the very young to the newly adult. Layering recent cognitive approaches to emotion, affect studies, and feminist perspectives on emotion, it investigates not only what texts for children and young adults have to say about emotion but also how such texts try to move their readers. In this, the chapters draw attention to the ways narrative literary texts address, elicit, shape, and/or embody emotion. Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents List of figures Introduction References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 1. Shades of feeling. Brightness, dramatic irony, and risk in A Perfect Day and Grandpa Green Introduction Universals and light Brightness on a need-to-know basis Brightness, emotion, and narrative mood Relative brightness Relative brightness and dramatic irony: Lane Smith’s A Perfect Day Risk and relative brightness: Lane Smith’s Grandpa Green Conclusion References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 2. The sublimity of darkness and its affective transmission and subduing in picturebooks Introduction: Darkness, affect, and the sublime Transmitting the sublime: The darkness of the universe Gothic darkness and the affective transmission of fear Darkness aestheticized through light colors, anthropomorphism, cuteness, adventure narratives, and humor Being brave and staying safe: Darkness in the context of risk, protection and agency References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 3. Tengo Miedo. Evolving representations of fear in Colombia Introduction Tengo Miedo, two versions Ivar Da Coll and Colombia's picturebook publishing industry Tengo Miedo (1989), a picturebook of innocent fears Tengo Miedo (2012), a reimagined picturebook Two picturebooks with the same name: An analysis Conclusion References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 4. Literalizing emotions in Disney and Pixar. Frozen and Inside Out challenge emotional hierarchies Introduction ‘With a smile and a song’: Disney’s treatment of female emotion in early films Frozen: Challenging emotional interiority Inside out: Challenging ‘bad’ emotions Conclusion References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 5. The angry caregiver. Gendered emotion in the Penderwicks series and the One Crazy Summer trilogy Introduction The ethics of care and gendered emotions The feminist emotions of the Penderwicks From “angry and afraid” to “spilling over mad”: Caregiver anger and racial justice Conclusion References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 6. Sad girls. Melancholy and adolescence in Skating the Edge and Touching Earth Lightly Introduction The pursuit of unhappiness Girls and feelings Melancholy Melancholy and institutionalization in Skating the Edge Melancholy desire in Touching Earth Lightly The pursuit of happiness as the pursuit of adulthood in Skating the Edge Achieving adulthood through queer disavowal in Touching Earth Lightly Conclusion References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 7. The cultural politics of confidence in Chetan Bhagat’s select fiction. Language and nation in twenty-first century India Introduction History and emotion, twenty-first century India and the emotion confidence Confidence and futurity through language in Bhagat’s novels: Young India’s national identity Conclusion References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 8. The affective construction of Chinese child citizenship in Little Friend, 1945–1949 Introduction The history of Little Friend A visually formulated promise in the physical labor Geographical empathy Conclusion References Primary source Secondary sources Chapter 9. Taking the reluctance out of reluctant reading. Frustration, shame, and curiosity in literacy narratives Introduction Affective pedagogy: A primer Shame Frustration Wonder Conclusion: What does ‘reluctance’ mean? who feels reluctance? References Primary sources Secondary sources Chapter 10. Emotion and the work of decolonization. The case of Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw Introduction A moving story: Affect and the production of knowledge Repetition and accumulation: Reading emotion References Primary sources Secondary sources Contributors Index "Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed for youth. With an emphasis on national literatures and international scholarship, it examines a variety of storytelling forms, formats, genres, and media crafted for readers ranging from the very young to the newly adult. Layering recent cognitive approaches to emotion, affect studies, and feminist perspectives on emotion, it investigates not only what texts for children and young adults have to say about emotion but also how such texts try to move their readers. In this, the essays draw attention to the ways narrative literary texts address, elicit, shape, and/or embody emotion"-- Provided by publisher