International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults

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Edited by B. J. Epstein, Elizabeth L. Chapman

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: November 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781785279850

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Notes on contributors
pp xv-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-10

BRAZIL

Chapter One - Self-Help and Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Themes in Contemporary Brazilian Young Adult Literature
pp 11-28

FRANCE

Chapter Two - We’re Not Here and We’re Not Queer: Bisexual Erasure and Stereotyping in French Young Adult Fiction
pp 29-54

GERMANY/ AUSTRIA

Chapter Three - Stuck in the Binary: Heteronormativity and the Binary Conception of Gender in German-Language Trans YA
pp 55-72

GREENLAND

Chapter Four - Homo Sapienne: A Mirror of Modern Greenlandic Life
pp 73-92

INDIA

Chapter Five - Out of the Closet? Exploring the Infoscape of LGBTQ+ Fiction For/ About Youth in India
pp 93-116

INDIGENOUS WRITING

Chapter Six - Un-settling Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous LGBTQ+/ Two-Spirit Literature for Young People
pp 117-128

ITALY

Chapter Seven - LGBTQ Families and Picturebooks: New Perspectives in Italian Children’s Literature
pp 129-146

MULTINATIONAL

Chapter Eight - Heather Has a Donor: 30 Years of International Lesbian-Themed Children’s Picture Books about Donor Insemination, 1989– 2019
pp 147-180

MULTINATIONAL

Chapter Nine - Morals, Society and Distribution: LGBTQ+ Literature for Young Readers in the Arab World
pp 181-182

MULTINATIONAL

Chapter Ten - Sameness and Difference in Visual Representations of Same-Sex Couples in International Children’s Picture Books
pp 183-198

THE PHILIPPINES

Chapter Eleven - Of Fabulous Flowers and Powers: Queer Narratives of/ for the Filipino Child in Philippine Contemporary Children’s Literature
pp 199-224

SLOVENIA

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