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  • LGBT Literature, Queer Geography, YA fiction, LGBTQ Youth Homelessness

Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine... more

Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine narratives. Performing a close reading of selected passages in Miranda Kenneally's Racing Savannah (2013), this paper acknowledges how this novel is a revitalization and a challenge to this pattern. Savannah, who is more gifted than her companions, is subordinate to the decisions of the junior of the household where she works. Jack Goodwin, the protagonist's romantic lead, educated in a neocolonialist background of male jockeying, becomes Savannah's marker of difference according to her sex and lower socioeconomic status, which lay at the root of her later racialization despite her being a white character. My analysis attempts to expose how these difficulties encountered by the protagonist to become a professional jockey articulate past and present constraints of the horse-racing ladder.

• • by Rocío Riestra-Camacho
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  • Gender Studies, Critical Race Studies, Contemporary American Literature, YA fiction
• • by Sam Miles
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  • Children's Literature, Queer Theory, Children's and Young Adult Literature, Sex and Sexuality

Diapositivas de la conferencia impartida dentro del curso "Teología del cuerpo. Un lenguaje para descifrar". Se trataba de explorar las características dramáticas, estéticas e ideológicas de series juveniles y adolescentes recientes, como... more

Diapositivas de la conferencia impartida dentro del curso "Teología del cuerpo. Un lenguaje para descifrar". Se trataba de explorar las características dramáticas, estéticas e ideológicas de series juveniles y adolescentes recientes, como Euphoria, Heartstopper, The End of F***ing World, Genera+ion, Élite, Normal People, Friday Night Lights, etc. Aderezado con ejemplos de muchas series, se estudian cómo se presentan asuntos como la maduración, las emociones, la sexualidad, el compromiso, la aceptación, la rabia, el desencanto o la identidad personal.

• • by Alberto N. García
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  • Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Series TV, Television
• • by Helen Wang
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  • Children's and Young Adult Literature, Chinese-to-English translation ( literary and non-fiction), YA fiction, Man-chiu Lin
• • by Rebecca Wolkenstein
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  • Television Studies, Literature, Children's Literature, Children's and Young Adult Literature
• • by Jeremy Larson
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  • Religion, Christianity, Mythology, Theology

Chapter 11 of Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries, Transforming Literary Studies Series, Lexington Books 2018, Ledbetter & Johannessen, Eds. If aesthetic imaginaries are the collective cultural aggregate of practices and possibilities for... more

Chapter 11 of Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries, Transforming Literary Studies Series, Lexington Books 2018, Ledbetter & Johannessen, Eds. If aesthetic imaginaries are the collective cultural aggregate of practices and possibilities for perceiving (and in turn valuing), this chapter argues that prose narrative's engagement with the flexible time of the reading imagination is well suited to expanding our cultural repertoires to better include bodies "at odds" with hegemonic cultural norms. I use examples of 3 transgender memoirs and several YA novels featuring protagonists with craniofacial anomalies in order to demonstrate how their authors guide the use of imagination in reading to expand readers' habits of perception and valuation in service of embodied justice. Such works, I argue, prepare readers to respond more positively, recognize nuance, and engage more fruitfully with those whose bodies are "at odds" either with normate expectations of facial appearance, dis/ability in general, or expectations of gender performance.

• • by Susan Cumings
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  • Imagination, YA fiction, Social Treatment of Craniofacial Anomaly, Transgender Memoir

University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 As Prof. Dale Townsend has observed, the concept of the Gothic has had an association with fairies from its inception; even before Walpole’s 1764 Castle of Otranto (considered the first Gothic... more

University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021
As Prof. Dale Townsend has observed, the concept of the Gothic has had an association with fairies from its inception; even before Walpole’s 1764 Castle of Otranto (considered the first Gothic novel), eighteenth-century poetics talked of ‘the fairy kind of writing’ which, for Addison, ‘raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader’ and ‘and favour those secret Terrours and Apprehensions to which the Mind of Man is naturally subject’. Johnson, in his Preface to Shakespeare (1765), talks of ‘the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies’. ‘Horror’ and ‘terror’ are key terms of affect in Gothic criticism; Townsend urges us, however, to move away from this dichotomy. While we are certainly interested in the darker aspects of fairies and the fear they may induce, this conference also welcomes attention to that aspect of Gothic that invokes wonder and enchantment.

• • by Bill Hughes
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  • Romanticism, Film Studies, Popular Culture, Renaissance

The goal of this paper is to investigate the role of disciplinary power regimes of femininity in sporting institutions depicted in sports fiction. With a renewed interest in analyzing sports practices as specifically gendered, this paper... more

The goal of this paper is to investigate the role of disciplinary power regimes of femininity in sporting institutions depicted in sports fiction. With a renewed interest in analyzing sports practices as specifically gendered, this paper addresses how contemporary narratives' deeper address of the affective encounters of characters has reconfigured the sports literary panorama. As represented in Miranda Kenneally's novel, Coming Up for Air (2017), friendship poses a challenge to the institutionalized, parental and gendered bodily vulnerability of sports. The analysis reveals how the adolescent body is manageable but can also contest, in direct questioning of the interests of authority. Enjoying friendship in sports, eventually, reveals paths towards more inclusive (bodily) practices in them. Finally, this paper speaks of the fact that juvenile fiction, traditionally considered an archive of negative influence on young readers' behaviors, can exercise the opposite effect too.

• • by Rocío Riestra-Camacho
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  • Nutrition and Dietetics, Contemporary American Literature, Friendship, Femininity

New Writing 15.4 (2018): 490-97. Print.

• • by Tom Ue, FRHistS
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  • Youth Studies, Children's Literature, Chidlren's Rights, LGBT Issues (Education)
• • by Alice Casarini
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  • YA Literature, YA fiction, Youtuber, Zoella
• • by Victoria Flanagan
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  • LGBT Youth, LGBT Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, YA fiction
• • by Jessica Sage
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  • Visual Culture, Sexualities education, Gender and Sexuality, Feminism