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Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children's and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Written by intellectual leaders in the field from the UK, the Americas, Europe, and Australia, this collection of essays explores the significance of the family and of familial and quasi-familial relationships in texts by a wide range of authors, including the Grimms, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rudyard Kipling, Enid Blyton, Judy Blume, Jaqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Melvin Burgess, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and others. Author-based and critical survey essays explore evolving depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BAME families; migrant and refugee narratives; the popular tropes of the orphan protagonist and the wicked stepmother; sibling and intergenerational familial relationships; fathers and fatherhood; the anthropomorphic animal and surrogate family; and the fractured family in paranormal and dystopian YA literature. The breadth of essays in Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature encourages readers to think beyond the outdated but culturally privileged 'nuclear family' and is a vital resource for students, academics, educators, and practitioners.
Contents
Foreword
Ann Alston
Introduction: Exploding the Nuclear Family
Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig
Part I: Beyond Wicked Stepmothers and Absent(-minded) Fathers
Where Are They Now? Manifestations of (Monstrous) Mothers in Fairy Tales
Claudia Schwabe
Perspectives on Fathers and Fatherhood within Children's Literature: A Case Study of Katya Balen's October, October
Richard Charlesworth
'Shrewd sound-hearted maiden aunts': The Aunt Figure in Children's Literature
Jane Suzanne Carroll
"What's the point of grandpa?": Grandparents in Children's Literature
Vanessa Joosen
Part II: Home, Nation, and Empire
Families Formed, Found and Fractured in the Children's Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett
Elisabeth Rose Gruner
The Feral Child and the More-than-Human Family
Jessica Straley
A Gift to the Family of Britain: Depictions of African, Caribbean and Black British Families in British Children's Literature after 1970
Karen Sands-O'Connor and Phyllis Ramage
Kinning with Picturebooks about La Frontera
Macarena García-González and Evelyn Arizpe
Part III: Growing Pains and Teenage Dreams
Bowlby, Blyton, and Child Care Issues in The Famous Five series
Nicholas Tucker
From First Born to Second Fiddle: Empathy is an Argument if Your Name is Peter Hatcher in Judy Blume's Fudge Books
Joseph Michael Sommers
"Mum's no fun now": Constructing the Maternal in the Family Fictions of Jacqueline Wilson
Kay Waddilove
'Chasing the Dragon': The Anxieties of Family in the Fiction of Melvin Burgess
Alyson Miller
A Taste for the Secret: Tracing Secretive Families in Malorie Blackman's Fiction
Blanka Grzegorczyk
Queering the Family in Young Adult Literature: Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End, Familial Disruption, and the Space of the Home
Angel Daniel Matos
Part IV: Alternative Families in Alternative Worlds
Lost Boys, Found Boys: Masculinities and Families in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter
Eleanor Spencer
Unhomely Domestic Spaces in Neil Gaiman's Coraline
Jade Dillon Craig
Apple to Pomegranate: Vampires and Families in the Twilight Saga
Lisa Nevarez
Breeders, Rebels and Warriors: The Oppression of Adolescent Mothers in the Young Adult Dystopias The Lone City trilogy and Gather the Daughters
Malin Alkestrand
