We are pleased to invite you to contribute a paper to the Special Issue “Constructions of Childhood(s) in Fiction and Nonfiction for Children” in the Open-Access journal Literature. This Special Issue aims to investigate constructions of childhood and the child reader in texts for children and young people, focusing in particular on ideological constructions and on nonfiction texts. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Constructions of the implied reader in texts for children;
- Childhood studies and (children’s and young adult) literature;
- Comparative perspectives on childhood constructions in fiction and nonfiction texts for children;
- Child constructions across different modes and genres of children’s texts;
- The intersections between childhood, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, and race;
- Comparative perspectives on childhood in texts from different times, cultures, and languages;
- Childhood in translated children’s texts;
- Childhood constructions in crossover literature;
- Childhood constructions and dual address in literature;
- Childhood in child-authored texts;
- The critical child reader;
- Childhood and posthumanism in literature;
- Visual constructions of childhood in children’s fiction and nonfiction;
- Constructions of childhood and adolescence in young adult literature;
- Stylistic/linguistic perspectives on childhood and ideology in children’s texts.
For the full call and information about submitting abstracts and manuscripts, please see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/70Z93F8ZLJ.
Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
Deadline for submitting a title and abstract: December 1st, 2023.
Deadline for submitting the full manuscript: 31 March, 2024.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Guest Editors, Sarah Hoem Iversen (shi@hvl.no) and Brianne Jaquette (brja@hvl.no)
Best wishes,
Sarah Hoem Iversen
Brianne Jaquette
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