
International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults
- 250 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults
About this book
This edited collection explores LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, and connects this literature to greater societal, political, linguistic, historical, and cultural concerns. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra, looking at picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers. The topics include the representation of sexualities and gender identities; depictions of queer families; censorship; links between culture, language and sexuality/gender; translation of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers; and self-publishing. It is the first collection to expand the study of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers beyond the English-speaking world and to draw cross-cultural comparisons.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter One Self-Help and Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Themes in Contemporary Brazilian Young Adult Literature
- Chapter Two Weāre Not Here and Weāre Not Queer: Bisexual Erasure and Stereotyping in French Young Adult Fiction
- Chapter Three Stuck in the Binary: Heteronormativity and the Binary Conception of Gender in German-Language Trans YA
- Chapter Four Homo Sapienne: A Mirror of Modern Greenlandic Life
- Chapter Five Out of the Closet? Exploring the Infoscape of LGBTQ+ Fiction For/About Youth in India
- Chapter Six Un-settling Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous LGBTQ+/Two-Spirit Literature for Young People
- Chapter Seven LGBTQ Families and Picturebooks: New Perspectives in Italian Childrenās Literature
- Chapter Eight Heather Has a Donor: 30 Years of International Lesbian-Themed Childrenās Picture Books about Donor Insemination, 1989ā2019
- Chapter Nine Morals, Society and Distribution: LGBTQ+ Literature for Young Readers in the Arab World
- Chapter Ten Sameness and Difference in Visual Representations of Same-Sex Couples in International Childrenās Picture Books
- Chapter Eleven Of Fabulous Flowers and Powers: Queer Narratives of/for the Filipino Child in Philippine Contemporary Childrenās Literature
- Chapter Twelve Between Literature, Ideology and Pedagogy: LGBTQ+ Fiction for Children and Young Adults in Slovenia
- Chapter Thirteen Boys Who Wear Dresses: Queer Narrative Strategies in Korean Childrenās Literature
- Chapter Fourteen Stories out of the Closet: LGBTQ+ Childrenās Picturebooks in Spain
- Chapter Fifteen āIām Sure This Whole Boy Thing is Just a Phaseā: Transgender Narratives in Contemporary Swedish Childrenās and Young Adult Literature
- Chapter Sixteen Becoming Versus Being: Nature, Nurture and Stereotypes in Swedish LGB Young Adult Novels
- List of Primary Texts
- Index