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Textual Transformations in Children's Literature

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Textual Transformations in Children's Literature book

Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations

Textual Transformations in Children's Literature

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Textual Transformations in Children's Literature book

Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations
Edited ByBenjamin Lefebvre
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 4 January 2013
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203098479
Pages 240 pages
eBook ISBN 9780203098479
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Lefebvre, B. (Ed.). (2013). Textual Transformations in Children's Literature. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203098479

This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits children’s literature and culture in order to consider the generic, pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales, films, graphic novels, and anime, the authors consider the challenges inherent in transforming the work of authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and A.A. Milne into new forms that are palatable for later audiences particularly when—for perceived ideological or political reasons—the textual transformation is not only unavoidable but entirely necessary. Contributors consider the challenges inherent in transforming stories and characters from one type of text to another, across genres, languages, and time, offering a range of new models that will inform future scholarship.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction: Reconsidering Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Benjamin Lefebvre

ByBENJAMIN LEFEBVRE

chapter 1|14 pages

Contested Spaces: Reconfi guring Narratives of Origin and Identity in Pocahontas and Princess Mononoke

ByDAVID WHITLEY

chapter 2|20 pages

“Popular and Timeless Literature”: Ur-Stories in Graphic Novels for Young People in Contemporary India: Malini Roy

ByMALINI ROY

chapter 3|15 pages

Preserving Roots: Vietnamese Folktales in Cross- Cultural and Transnational Translation: Hanh Nguyen

ByHANH NGUYEN

chapter 4|16 pages

“You Will Think Them Poor Baby Stories to Make Such a Talk About”: Prose Adaptations for Children of Shakespeare’s Venetian Plays: Laura Tosi

ByLAURA TOSI

chapter 5|14 pages

Challenges for the Chalet School: From Bookshelf to Blogosphere and Back Again: Lisa Migo

ByLISA MIGO

chapter 6|14 pages

Where (and When) Do You Live, Cinderella? Cultural Shifts in Polish Translations and Adaptations of Charles Perrault’s Fairy: Monika Woźniak

ByPerrault’s Fairy Tales MONIKA WOŹNIAK

chapter 7|25 pages

Alice Lost and Found: A Queer Book History: Nat Hurley

ByNAT HURLEY

chapter 8|27 pages

Patterns, Power, and Paradox: International Book Covers of Anne of Green Gables across a Century: Andrea Mckenzie

ByANDREA MCKENZIE

chapter 9|19 pages

An no shinjô [Anne’s Feelings]: Politeness and Passion as Anime Paradox in Takahata’s Akage no An: Emily Somers

ByEMILY SOMERS

chapter 10|22 pages

Our Home on Native Land: Adapting and Readapting Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie: Benjamin Lefebvre

ByBENJAMIN LEFEBVRE

chapter 11|17 pages

Beyond Happily Ever After: The Aesthetic Dilemma of Multivolume Fiction for Children: Maria Nikolajeva

ByMARIA NIKOLAJEVA
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