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Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature

From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

Lisa Rowe Fraustino (Hrsg.), Karen Coats (Hrsg.)

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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews

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Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2018 Edited Book Award

Contributions by Robin Calland, Lauren Causey, Karen Coats, Sara K. Day, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, Adrienne Kertzer, Kouen Kim, Alexandra Kotanko, Jennifer Mitchell, Mary Jeanette Moran, Julie Pfeiffer, and Donelle Ruwe

Living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or merrily adequate, the figure of the mother bears enormous freight across a child's emotional and intellectual life. Given the vital role literary mothers play in books for young readers, it is remarkable how little scholarly attention has been paid to the representation of mothers outside of fairy tales and beyond studies of gender stereotypes. This collection of thirteen essays begins to fill a critical gap by bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives by a rich mix of senior scholars and new voices.

Following an introduction in which the coeditors describe key trends in interdisciplinary scholarship, the book's first section focuses on the pedagogical roots of maternal influence in early children's literature. The next section explores the shifting cultural perspectives and subjectivities of the twentieth century. The third section examines the interplay of fantasy, reality, and the ethical dimensions of literary mothers. The collection ends with readings of postfeminist motherhood, from contemporary realism to dystopian fantasy.

The range of critical approaches in this volume will provide multiple inroads for scholars to investigate richer readings of mothers in children's and young adult literature.

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dystopia, Women's Studies, Margaret Gatty, Coraline, community, patriarchy, Other Mother, African American, memory, femininity, grandmothers, Lessons for Children, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, Lore Groszmann Segal, Children's Literature, animal babies, Latina, fairy tales, Maternal, child development, Backfisch, Sisterland, ideology, Nursery rhymes, Young Adult Literature, Sara Ruddick, feminism, identity, Sigmund Freud, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Alice Walker, The Hunger Games, fantasy, Popular Culture, anthropomorphism, Six to Sixteen, care ethics, daughters, traditional myths, Neil Gaiman, Oedipus complex, abandonment, animal mothers, scripts, fathers, Rebecca Walker, narrators, A Wreath for Emmett Till, absent mother