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This edited volume proposes a new perspective on how children's literature interacts with politics: its chapters focus not only on politics and literature or politics in literature, but primarily on the politics of text and image. Following Jacques Rancière's philosophy, the collection understands The Politics of Text and Image in Children's Culture as an aesthetic (re)configuration of world perception that shapes both the individual subjectivity of young readers/viewers and their sense of belonging to different communities. The volume's focus on Eastern Europe reflects the contemporary political realities of the region. It embraces new texts from Belarusian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian, independent Russian, and post-Soviet Russophone children's and young adult (YA) literature. The collection combines this unique focus on Eastern Europe with a broad, systematic, and global perspective. It includes chapters on transnational trends in contemporary children's literature and on the productive dialogue taking place between Eastern European, Central Asian, and North American cultural spaces. This volume brings together established scholars from Austria, Croatia, Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, and the United States. It is intended primarily for scholars of children's literature and culture, educational studies, and Eastern European and Slavic studies.
Contents
Svetlana Efimova and Marina Balina: The Politics of Text and Image in Children's Culture: Introduction
Section I. Working for the Future: Shaping an Engaged Reader through Image and Text
Marek Oziewicz (University of Minnesota, USA): The Politics of Climate Literacy in Picturebooks: Three Strategies for Shaping Ecocentric Attitudes with Text and Images
Carmen Sippl (University College of Teacher Education, Lower Austria): Decoding Picturebooks in/as a Futures Literacy Lab: Imaginings of the Future in Contemporary German-Language Picturebooks
Svetlana Efimova (LMU Munich, Germany): Individual Agency in Contemporary Belarusian and Russian Picturebooks: Empowerment and Critical Thinking
Karoline Thaidigsmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany): Concepts of Socially Engaged Polish Children's Literature of the Twenty-First Century
Enikő Dácz (LMU Munich, Germany): The Realm of Tales and Poems as an Ideological Battlefield in Contemporary Hungarian Children's Literature
Section II. The Politics of Memory: Visualizing Text, Textualizing Image
Daria Semenova (Vilnius University, Lithuania): Illustrated History for Pre-School Ukrainians: Stories About History and the Collective Memory Narrative
Mateusz Świetlicki (University of Wrocław, Poland): Politics of Memory and Present-Day Politics in Ukrainian-Themed American Historical Fiction for Young People
Anastasia Ulanowicz (University of Florida, USA): Haunted Memories: Representations of Eastern European Immigration in Vera Brosgol's Be Prepared and Anya's Ghost
Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA): The Presence of the Past: Transmitting War Memory in Contemporary Russian YA Literature
Laure Thibonnier-Limpek (Université Grenoble Alpes, France): War and Peace in Children's Drawings: Visual Canon between the Leningrad Siege and Today's Russia
Section III. Textual and Visual Construction of Social Worlds in the Twenty-First Century
Maria Mayofis (Amherst College, USA): Imagined Social Worlds: Assembling Diversity in Contemporary Post-Soviet Children's Literatures
Larissa Rudova (Pomona College, USA): The Queering of Childhood in Mikita Franko's Fiction: New Characters and New Parenthood
Dorota Michułka (University of Wrocław, Poland): From Liminality to Resilience: Migratory Experience in Contemporary Polish Literature for Children and Young Adults
Smiljana Narančić Kovač (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Leaving and Finding Home: War and Refugees in Croatian Picturebooks
Anne Hultsch (University of Vienna, Austria): "Where Is My Home?" Searching for National Identity in Czech Children's and YA Literature
Bella Delacroix Ostromooukhova (Sorbonne University, France): "Home Is Where Your Books Are": Children's Literature for a New Wave of Russian Emigration
