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Contributions by Kris Alexander, Amanda K. Allen, Brianna Anderson, Catherine Burwell, Katharine Capshaw, Negin Dahya, Gabriel Duckels, Paige Gray, Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Natasha Hurley, Kenneth B. Kidd, Erica Law-Montes, Derritt Mason, Brandon Murakami, Tehmina Pirzada, Cristina Rhodes, Cristina Rivera, Jakob Rosendal, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Vivek Shraya, Victoria Ford Smith, Joshua Whitehead, and Shuyin Yu
How do we think about children's and young adult literature? Children's literature is often defined through audience, so what happens when children are drawn to and claim genres not built expressly "for" them? To what extent do canonical formations tend to overwrite or obscure less visible efforts to create and promote material for the young? These are the driving questions of Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be.
Contributors to the volume offer theoretical meditations on the category of children's and young adult literature as well as case studies of materials that complicate our understanding of such. Chapters attend to a diverse array of subjects including the "non-places" of children's literature; child mediums; Black theater for children; children's interpretive drawings; fanfiction; Latinx, Indigenous, and silkpunk speculative fiction; environmental zines; shōnen anime; Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal; South Asian television; and "emergency children's literature." The book also features interviews with two experimental writers about genre and alt-publishing and a roundtable conversation on video games and children's digital engagements. Building on diverse approaches including queer theory and postcolonial studies, Alt Kid Lit shines light on materials, methodologies, and epistemologies that are sometimes underacknowledged in the field of children's and young adult literature studies.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason
Part I. Alt Genre
Kid Lit from beyond the Grave: Spiritualism, Child Mediums, and the Haunting Problem of Child Agency
Victoria Ford Smith
Singing a "Sea Island Song": Alice Childress's Responsive Black Theater
Katharine Capshaw
The Seductions of Little Red Riding Hood: On the Thresholds of Children's Drawings
Jakob Rosendal
Snanger Danger: SS/HG Fanfiction, Kinship, and an Affinity Space Model of Children's and Young Adult Literature
Amanda K. Allen
Zine Ecoactivism and Pedagogies of Hope in World War 3 Illustrated #46
Brianna Anderson
Emergency Children's Literature: Some Observations on Pandemic Picture Books
Gabriel Duckels
The Case of Jonny's Genre: An Interview with Joshua Whitehead
Derritt Mason
Part II. Alt Medium
YA Literature, Plus Ultra: A Case Study of the Shōnen Anime My Hero Academia
Brandon Murakami
From Melodrama to Kitschy Romance: Alt Kid Media in India and Pakistan
Tehmina Pirzada
"Bizarre Creatures" and the Fans Who Love Them: The Dark Crystal as Alternative Children's Culture
Paige Gray
Video Games and Young People's Digital Cultures: A Panel Discussion
Kristopher Alexander, Negin Dahya, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Catherine Burwell, and Derritt Mason
Part III. Alt Epistemology
The Alt Within: Queerness, Psychoanalysis, and Children's Literature as Enigmatic Signifier
Natasha Hurley
"We're Americans Too!": Contingencies and Contradictions in Picture Books about Japanese American Incarceration
Gabrielle Atwood Halko
Retomando el Día de los Muertos: Death, Life, and Latinx Epistemology in Children's Literature
Cristina Rhodes
Reimagining the "Alternative": Sustaining Representation of Indigenous People and People of Color through Speculative Fiction in The Marrow Thieves and Mañanaland
Erica Law-Montes and Cristina Rivera
Silkpunk and Agender Childhoods in Neon Yang's Tensorate Universe
Shuyin Yu
Alt Publishing for Young People: An Interview with Vivek Shraya
Derritt Mason
Contributors
Index
