Liminal spaces in children's and young adult literature stories from the in between / edited by Mark I. West.

Contents Part One. Essays Focusing on Themes and Genres -- The Library as a Liminal Space: A Composite Portrait / Claudia Mills -- "There's more to life than mops and pails": Liminal Spaces in Picturebooks / Anne K. Phillips -- Negotiating Generational Conflict: Queer and Trans Interventions in YA Fiction / Jonathan Alexander -- The Healing Power of Liminal Spaces in African American Children's Literature / Mark I. West -- Asian Americans Find Liminal Spaces to Combat Racism and Erasure / Katharine Kittredge and Paige D'Encarnacao -- Jouets Trouvés: Found Objects and Porthole Fantasies in Children's Liminal Spaces / Scott G. Eberle -- Secret Gardens and Spiritual Gestation: The Fecundity of Liminal Metaphors in the Children's Literature of Frances Hodgson Burnett and C.S. Lewis / Terry Lindvall -- Part Two. Essays Focusing on Individual Novels -- The Architecture of Girlhood: Gendered Spaces in Louisa Tuthill's Reality; or the Millionaire's Daughter / Laura Hakala -- Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows as Horror: Children, Motorcars, and the Liminal Space of the Road / Eric L. Tribunella -- Riding "an enchanted horse with invisible wings": Velvet Brown's Liminal Space in National Velvet / Kathy Merlock Jackson -- An Escape to Liminal Spaces in Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia / Trina Marie Rumfelt -- Carrying My Family in a Suitcase: Exploring Liminal Space in Christopher Paul Curtis's Bud, Not Buddy / Jan Susina -- It's a Small Liminal World After All: Being on the Limbo Ride in Libba Bray's Going Bovine / Michele D. Castleman -- The Hope and Hardship of Liminality: Homelessness in Katherine Applegate's Crenshaw / Paula T. Connolly -- Double Consciousness and Liminality in Angeline Boulley's Firekeeper's Daughter / Sarah Minslow.
Abstract "Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together a collection of essays in conversation with each other surrounding a widely untapped field of study in children's and young adult literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Issued in other formPrint version: Liminal spaces in children's and young adult literature Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024] 9781666938876
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2024000954
ISBN9781666938883 (ebook)
ISBN(cloth)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Electronic Resources Access Content Online ✔ Available