International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults

Edited by B.J. Epstein, Elizabeth Chapman

Publication date:

17 August 2021

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781785279843

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.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction, B. J. Epstein and Elizabeth L. Chapman; Chapter One – BRAZIL Self- Help and Coming Out: LGBTQ+ Themes in Contemporary Brazilian Young Adult Literature, Rosa Maria Hessel Silveira, Luiz Felipe Zago and Daniela Ripoll; Chapter Two – FRANCE We’re Not Here and We’re Not Queer: Bisexual Erasure and Stereotyping in French Young Adult Fiction, Elizabeth L. Chapman; Chapter Three – GERMANY/ AUSTRIA Stuck in the Binary: Heteronormativity and the Binary Conception of Gender in German- Language Trans YA, Katrin Waldhart; Chapter Four – GREENLAND Homo Sapienne: A Mirror of Modern Greenlandic Life, Mette Laustsen; Chapter Five – INDIA Out of the Closet? Exploring the Infoscape of LGBTQ+ Fiction For/ About Youth in India, Bharat Mehra and Chris Barrett; Chapter Six – INDIGENOUS WRITING Un-settling Gender and Sexuality: Indigenous LGBTQ+/ Two- Spirit Literature for Young People, Thaddeus Andracki; Chapter Seven – ITALY LGBTQ Families and Picturebooks: New Perspectives in Italian Children’s Literature, Dalila Forni; Chapter Eight – MULTINATIONAL Heather Has a Donor: 30 Years of International Lesbian- Themed Children’s Picture Books about Donor Insemination, 1989– 2019, Patricia Sarles; Chapter Nine – MULTINATIONAL Morals, Society and Distribution: LGBTQ+ Literature for Young Readers in the Arab World, Anonymous; Chapter Ten – MULTINATIONAL Sameness and Diff erence in Visual Representations of Same-Sex Couples in International Children’s Picture Books, Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Mercedes Zabawa; Chapter Eleven – THE PHILIPPINES Of Fabulous Flowers and Powers: Queer Narratives of/ for the Filipino Child in Philippine Contemporary Children’s Literature, Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno; Chapter Twelve – SLOVENIA Between Literature, Ideology and Pedagogy: LGBTQ+ Fiction for Children and Young Adults in Slovenia, Andrej Zavrl; Chapter Thirteen – SOUTH KOREA Boys Who Wear Dresses: Queer Narrative Strategies in Korean Children’s Literature, Anton Hur; Chapter Fourteen – SPAIN Stories out of the Closet: LGBTQ+ Children’s Picturebooks in Spain, Bernat Cormand; Chapter Fifteen – SWEDEN ‘I’m Sure This Whole Boy Thing is Just a Phase’: Transgender Narratives in Contemporary Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Åsa Warnqvist; Chapter Sixteen – SWEDEN Becoming Versus Being: Nature, Nurture and Stereotypes in Swedish LGB Young Adult Novels, B. J. Epstein; List of Primary Texts; Index.

‘This new collection brings together much needed scholarship on children’s and YA fiction featuring LGBTQ+ people and themes in languages other than English. Edited by preeminent researchers in the field, this is important reading for anyone interested in this growing – and increasingly diverse – genre of children’s literature.’ — Mark McGlashan, Birmingham City University, UK