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Healthcare in Children's Media

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length, multidisciplinary study examining representations of healthcare systems in children’s media

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Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction

Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure

University Press of Mississippi

One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism

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Atravesados

Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders

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Animating the Victorians

Disney's Literary History

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse

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Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books

University Press of Mississippi

An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books

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The Child Gaze

Narrating Resistance in American Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A compelling study centered on the eyes of children and their powerful lines of sight

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In Transition

Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation

University Press of Mississippi

How the young adult book market has shifted in favor of transgender inclusivity

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L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon

A Children's Classic at 100

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of essays focused on the often-overlooked novel series by the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables

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Alt Kid Lit

What Children's Literature Might Be

University Press of Mississippi

A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children’s literature is and who it is made for

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Tending to the Past

Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

University Press of Mississippi

How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers

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The Velveteen Rabbit at 100

University Press of Mississippi

A new series of engaging and fascinating essays on the beloved children’s classic

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Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 2

Critical Approaches

University Press of Mississippi

The second installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora

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Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1

History, Pedagogy, and Publishing

University Press of Mississippi

The first installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora

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Queer Oz

L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender

University Press of Mississippi

The first scholarly monograph to focus on L. Frank Baum’s portrayals of queerness and sexuality in his more than seventy works of fiction

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African American Adolescent Female Heroes

The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly examination of contemporary neo-slave narratives and their African American heroines

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Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media

University Press of Mississippi

An essential study on portrayals of D/deaf experiences in children’s literature and popular culture

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Containing Childhood

Space and Identity in Children’s Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A critical exploration of space in children’s literature and how those spaces affect child characters and readers

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A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

University Press of Mississippi

A celebration of the beloved and consequential children’s magazine

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Harry Potter and the Other

Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating reconsideration of the depictions and implications of race and diversity in the Harry Potter franchise

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The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books

University Press of Mississippi

A foundational look at the way children’s books shaped views of the LGBTQ+ world

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Equipping Space Cadets

Primary Science Fiction for Young Children

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly exploration of how children’s books embrace and wrestle with the science fiction genre

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The Green Mister Rogers

Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

By Sara Lindey and Jason King; Foreword by Junlei Li
University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth exploration of the environmentalism in the beloved children’s television program

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Little Women at 150

Edited by Daniel Shealy
University Press of Mississippi

A new exploration of the lasting affection and appreciation of the beloved children’s novel

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The School Story

Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism

University Press of Mississippi

Through the lens of literature and film for and about students, a critique of what neoliberalism unleashed in schools

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From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families

The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives

University Press of Mississippi

How young adult stories interrogate and enrich our understandings of what disability means

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Transforming Girls

The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence

University Press of Mississippi

A study of nineteenth-century young adult literature that refocuses the history of girls’ books and female adolescence in the United States and Germany

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Positioning Pooh

Edward Bear after One Hundred Years

University Press of Mississippi

A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear

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At Arm’s Length

A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference

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Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A wrestling with the faults and possibilities of the portrayals of race in this powerful genre

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Side by Side

US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A groundbreaking study on the impact of Puerto Rican children’s literature and culture

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Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the diverse ways in which children’s literature and film contribute to intergenerational bonding and solidarity

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Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A new perspective on an explosively popular subgenre of young adult media

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Table Lands

Food in Children's Literature

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children’s literature

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Children's Books on the Big Screen

University Press of Mississippi

A critical volume dedicated to children’s film adaptation

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Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks

Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

Amuch-needed intervention into the critical study of Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature

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Beyond the Blockbusters

Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature

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Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction

Edited by Ymitri Mathison
University Press of Mississippi

Essays exploring how Asian American adolescents form identity in YA fiction

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The Order and the Other

Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A critical study of the perceptions of two similar but separate genres in young adult literature

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Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House and Beyond

University Press of Mississippi

A thoroughly researched and critical examination of Wilder’s entire body of work and problematic legacy

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Oz behind the Iron Curtain

Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series

University Press of Mississippi

The first English-language study of Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic Land series

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Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A revelation of the powerful alternative to sexism offered by children’s literature

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Perils of Protection

Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of children’s rights in literature

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Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature

From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

University Press of Mississippi

From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother

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Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction

Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World

University Press of Mississippi

A tracking of the fascinating connections between adolescence and the concerns of posthumanism

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Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults

A Collection of Critical Essays

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the tremendous influence and power of US comics for youth in the twenty-first century

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Reading in the Dark

Horror in Children's Literature and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

Considerations of horror from Struwwelpeter to Coraline, Shrek, and Monsters, Inc.

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Between Generations

Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature

University Press of Mississippi

How children and adults collaborated to create some of the most beloved works in literature

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Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna

A Children's Classic at 100

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

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Little Red Readings

Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A compelling case for the need to analyze children’s literature from a Marxist perspective

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Reading Like a Girl

Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexuality

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