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International Research in Children s Literature

Subject Areas: Literature and Literary Theory
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press - Edinburgh University Press
ISSN: 1755-6198
SJR: 9

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2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0520
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2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0539
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Introduction: Black Spaces in International Children's Literature

Chandler, Karen; Martin, Michelle H.

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0521
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Virtual Erasure: Ntozake Shange, Black Spaces, Wealth, and Children’s Biographies

Hinton, KaaVonia

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0522

In “‘The White Space’”, sociologist Elijah Anderson notes that, despite some integration post- Brown v. Board of Education, certain public areas continue to be perceived as ‘white spaces’. Conversely, Black spaces, largely due to media portrayals, are identified as the ghetto. This article...
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Young Poets and Black Spaces: Vanessa Howard’s Poetics of Nature

Conrad, Rachel

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0523

This article explores the poetics of nature in the work of Vanessa Howard, a young poet involved with The Voice of the Children workshop, a group of Black and Latinx teenaged writers in Brooklyn, New York, who worked with poet June Jordan and educator Terri Bush from 1967 to 1971. A significant...
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‘Good Cause for Living’: Environmental Justice in Virginia Hamilton’s M. C. Higgins, the Great

Rizzuto, Lauren

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0524

This article offers an ecocritical reading of Virginia Hamilton’s celebrated novel M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974) to reposition it as a milestone of environmental writing for children. Arriving concurrently with the first Earth Day in the United States in 1970, the novel exposes the generational...
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The Child Protagonist as Agent and Subject in Harriet's Daughter and Crick Crack, Monkey

Chang, Victoria V.

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0525

This paper explores two novellas by Black Caribbean women writers: Crick Crack, Monkey by Trinidadian author Merle Hodge, and Harriet's Daughter by Tobagonian-born M. NourbeSe Philip. In Hodge's work, the protagonist, Tee, must negotiate between two worlds. The first is that of her early home...
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Creating Space for Black Girl Power in Fred Crump, Jr.’s Transformative Fairy Tales

Anderson, Brianna; Murakami, Brandon

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0526

Between the 1980s and 2007, Fred Crump, Jr., published over twenty picturebooks that retell popular fairy tales with Black characters. These transgressive texts celebrate the African diaspora and enable his implied audience of young Black readers to see themselves as heroes in the still primarily...
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Where the Wild Things Are: An-Other Critique of Niki Daly’s Pretty Salma

Mondal, Sayanti

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0527

This article offers a postcolonial critique of Niki Daly’s Pretty Salma (2006), a Ghanaian retelling of the European folktale Little Red Riding Hood. Here, I particularly examine the role and representation of characters that highlight the conflict between the traditional and non-traditional...
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The Sounds and Colours of Harlem: Sharing the Secrets of African American Urban Landscapes

Klęczaj-Siara, Ewa

2023 International Research in Children s Literature

doi:10.3366/ircl.2023.0528

The aim of this article is to explore strategies African American picturebooks are using to construct a sense of the Black urban home. Specifically, it looks at Carole Boston Weatherford's Sugar Hill (2014), Faith Ringgold's Harlem Renaissance Party (2015), and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts's Jake Makes a...

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