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Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Stories from the In Between
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- English
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About this book
Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of "liminal spaces" around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this collection take a wide variety of approaches to their explorations of liminal spaces in children's and young adult literature. Some discuss how children's books portray the liminal nature of physical spaces, such as the children's room in a library. Others deal with more abstract portrayals, such as the imaginary space where Max goes to escape the reality of his bedroom in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. All of the contributors, however, provide keen insights into how liminal spaces figure in children's and young adult literature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Essays Focusing on Themes and Genres
- The Library as a Liminal Space
- “There’s more to life than mops and pails”
- Negotiating Generational Conflict
- The Healing Power of Liminal Spaces in African American Children’s Literature
- Asian Americans Find Liminal Spaces to Combat Racism and Erasure
- Jouets Trouvés
- Secret Gardens and Spiritual Gestation
- Essays Focusing on Individual Novels
- The Architecture of Girlhood
- Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows as Horror
- Riding “an enchanted horse with invisible wings”
- An Escape to Liminal Spaces in Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia
- Carrying My Family in a Suitcase
- It’s a Small Liminal World After All
- The Hope and Hardship of Liminality
- Double Consciousness and Liminality in Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter
- Index
- About the Contributors
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