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Conflicts and Controversies: Challenging Children's Literature            
Bridget Carrington & Jennifer Harding (eds.)
£22.00 ISBN 978 0 9552106 7 9
2011

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This collection of papers represents presentations given at the annual conference of the British branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY UK) and the MA course at the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (NCRCL) at Roehampton University in November 2010. Its title, Conflicts and Controversies, reflects the breadth of discussion in which students of children's literature engage, and the papers themselves reveal that there is a long and involved history of controversy and conflict both within and about books for young people. Individual papers from authors, publishers and scholars examine that history, but also consider what makes a book controversial, particularly in the opinion of adults, and how writers through the centuries have portrayed conflict - social, personal and political - to draw the attention of young readers to the often perplexing and uncomfortable realities of life.

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Contents

Introduction                                                                                  
Bridget Carrington


Conflicts and controversies: Running into Flak                              
Elizabeth Laird


Pushing the Boundaries of Teen Fiction                                       
Anne Cassidy


Publishers’ Panel                                                                          
Klaus Flugge, Denise Johnstone-Burt and Geraldine Brennan (chair)


Malorie Blackman in Conversation with Laura Atkins
Reported by Pat Pinsent


Once Upon a Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children – An Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum                                         
Jane Rosen and Hazel Brown


Controversial Images of Wartime Europe in the Works of Elinor Brent-Dyer                                                                                           
Kirsty Jenkins


The Refugee Diary Series: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless               
Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young


Losing, Choosing, Abusing, Removing my Religion: Conflicting Attitudes Concerning Religion in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
Tammy L. Mielke


Gorilla Warfare: Apes, Adolescents and African Adventures in 1860s Children’s Literature                                                                     
Ruth Murphy


A Band of Light amongst the Shadows: The Boy Detective and the Penny-Dreadful Controversy of the 1860s                                       
Lucy Andrew


Conflicts and Controversies in European Picture Books
Penni Cotton


‘…until the day she found an empty chair.’ The Conceptualisation of Bereavement and Depression through the Picture-Book Narrative of Oliver Jeffers’ The Heart and the Bottle                                          
Sarah Stokes


Hair Controversy and Racial Politics in Children’s Picture Books       
Kimberly Black

 
Rupturing the Past: Disturbing Family Relationships in Hugh Scott’s Why Weeps the Brogan?                                                             
Sandra J. Williams


The Controversy and Conflict of the Narrative Voice in The Running Man, Battle Royale and The Hunger Games                                   
Helen Fiona Day


Are They or Aren’t They? Critical Interpretations of Same-Sex Relationships in Picture Books                                                     
Erica Gillingham


Dancing and Playing and Mattering: How Gay Teenagers are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature                                               
B J Epstein


William Mayne and the Death of the Author                                     
Anthony Pavlik


Biographies of Conference Contributors                                 

Index

 

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