Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature articles from May 2006

Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature archives from May 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... This issue of Papers represents a milestone in the journal's history as we say farewell to Robin Pope, and welcome Kerry Mallan to the role of co-editor. Robin has been editing Papers since 1995/6, when Deakin took over the journal from the...

Performativity and the child who may not be a child.
May 1, 2006... Performativity, one of the most recent buzz words in literary studies, is a concept with complex origins, going back at least half a century. Some of the elements discussed under its rubric originate in the domain of theatre performance...

Making magic: (hetero)sexual (in)visibility in Scandinavian young adult novels.
May 1, 2006... In Scandinavia, there is a commonly held assumption that gender equality has already been accomplished. In fictional representations, however, gender and sex roles are more problematic. This study of the depiction of girlhood in Scandinavian...

Over her dead body: expelling the monstrous-feminine in Touching Earth Lightly.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... Death and sex/uality are inextricably linked in the Western cultural imagination. The French slang term for 'orgasm' (la petite mort) is said to literally translate as 'little death', for instance, while the 'sex-leading-to-death' motif is...

Sex education, Hollywood style: gender, sexuality and identity in The Girl Next Door.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... Films do more than entertain, they offer up subject positions, mobilize desires, influence us unconsciously, and help to construct the {cultural} landscape. Deeply imbricated within material and symbolic relations of power, movies...

Just telling it like it is? Representations of teenage fatherhood in contemporary Western young adult fiction.
May 1, 2006... The word "father" scares the life out of me. How can I be a father at sixteen, seventy miles away from a girl I hardly know and a baby I've never seen? (Reckless 2002, p.160) Baby hands. Warm, sweet-smelling baby hands. And...

The theme of premature burial in Garth Nix's early novels.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... Over the past fifteen years Garth Nix has established himself as a leading Australian writer of Gothic fantasy for children and young adults. His fantasy quest novels mingle elements from sword and sorcery and Gothic horror, with the horror...