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The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institutions within which they function, including family, church, government, and school.

Teenagers --- Repression (Psychology) in literature. --- Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Adolescence in literature. --- Young adult fiction, American --- Books and reading. --- History and criticism. --- Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- gezag --- adolescenten --- geweld --- seksualiteit --- dood --- jeugdliteratuur --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature

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It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in Social Contract and of experiential education in Emile. His emphasis on the early years as a crucial part of life drove the Romantic reconceptualization of childhood-the idea that children have a special knowledge of nature, politics, and spirituality to teach their elders as well as the other way around. William Wordsworth's assertion in the "Intimations Ode" that children's souls come "trailing clouds of glory" from God has continued to haunt Western lit

Children in literature. --- Romanticism. --- Children's literature, American --- Children's literature, English --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- History and criticism. --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- jeugdliteratuur

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This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study pinpoints an intersecting adult and child culture: it demonstrates that many children's stories had political, literary, and social contexts that paralleled the way adult books, schools, churches, and government institutions similarly maligned black identity, culture, and intelligence. The book reveals how links between the socialization of children and conservative trends in the 19th century foretold 20th century disregard for social justice in Ame

American literature --- African Americans in literature. --- White supremacy movements --- Children --- Children's literature, American --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Supremacist movements, White --- Supremacy movements, White --- White supremacist movements --- Social movements --- White nationalism --- Skinheads --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Books and reading --- White authors --- History and criticism --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Comparative literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- 19th century --- African Americans in literature --- United States --- Children's literature [American ] --- Characters and characteristics in literature --- Racism in literature

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This book provides a critical appraisal of the treatment of war in children's reading during the 20th century, covering World War I, World War II and subsequent wars, including Vietnam, the Gulf War and the war in the Balkans.

War in literature. --- Children's literature, English. --- English literature --- English children's literature --- Comparative literature

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The Mighty Child offers an existentialist approach to the theorization and criticism of children's literature, nuancing the academic claim that children's literature, specifically defined as 'didactic', alienates childhood from adulthood and disempowers its implied child reader. This volume recentres the theoretical debate around the constructions of time and power which characterize conceptions of childhood and adulthood in children's literature. The 'hidden', didactic adult of children's literature, this volume argues, is not solely the dictatorial planner of the child's future, but also a disempowered entity, yearning for unpredictability in the semi-educational, semi-aesthetic endeavor of the children's book. Leaning on current work in the field of children's literature theory, on French phenomenological existentialism, and on the philosophy and sociology of childhood, The Mighty Child is addressed to contemporary theorists and critics of children's literature.

Children's literature --- Time in literature. --- Power (Philosophy) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- literary criticism --- filosofie --- macht --- jeugdliteratuur --- tijd --- Time in literature --- Power (Philosophy) in literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature pour la jeunesse --- Temps (philosophie) --- Pouvoir (philosophie) --- Histoire et critique. --- Dans la littérature. --- Barnlitteratur. --- Children's literature. --- Den andre i litteraturen. --- Litteraturteori. --- Makt i litteraturen. --- Tid i litteraturen. --- børne- og ungdomslitteratur.