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Many of us grew up exploring fascinating worlds--in books, films, and, most importantly, our imaginations--places filled with mythological characters and magical landscapes where we had stunning experiences punctuated by the harmless pleasures that any child's mind can conjure. These worlds sometimes end up in our childhood fictions, which have in turn shaped countless imaginations and childhood adventures. The essays in this book attempt to comprehend the worlds of children's progressive fiction--from how they are created to how they affect readers.
This book explores what happens when speculative genres (fantasy, horror, and science fiction) and imaginative spaces collide headlong with the realities and surrealities of modern childhood. It moves back and forth between Oz, Wonderland, Redwall and Fear Street, and explores series such as Nancy Drew, Inkheart, The Mortal Instruments, the Miss Peregrine series and more. Many of these works feature children who must save the day--to stop the bad guy, kill the monster, complete the quest and rescue adults--leading us to wonder if fantastic spaces in children's progressive fiction are really helping kids prepare to save the world rather than helping them temporarily escape it.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sites of Speculation: Contestation, Imagination, and the Places of Childhood Fancy
Michael G. Cornelius
Alice Retaught: A Child's Experience of Rule-Making and Rule-Following in Social Space
Dakota Root
On the Road to Oz: Crossing Fantasy Spaces in L. Frank Baum's Oz Series
Steven A. Nardi
Topoi and Character in the Redwall Series
John R. Gilhooly
Mind the Verbal Cartographic Gap: Uncovering Power in the Fantasy Multiverse of Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci Series
Julia Jin Wang
The Map Is Not the Territory: Mapping Growth and Change in Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland Series
Ellis Khachidze
Sowing the Seeds of Fear: Architecting Fearscapes in R.L. Stine's Fear Street Saga
Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards
(Un)Making Hell: Mirror Journeys in The Mortal Instruments and Dante's Inferno
Raphaela Behounek
Myth, Place, and Time in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Sean Ferrier-Watson
Space as a Journey to Survival in Ann Aguirre's Enclave
Jessica Newman-Doubell
Terror Castles and Red Gate Farms: "Haunted" Childhoods and the Commodification of Space
Michael G. Cornelius
Understanding Multi-World Metafiction Through Place-Attachment: Base World, New World, and (In)Complete World
in the Inkheart Trilogy
Wenduo Zhang
Conclusion: The Limits of Fancy
Michael G. Cornelius and Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards
About the Contributors
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