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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"youth literature"”.
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Finding the Fantastic: Digitally Mapping the London of Fantasy Youth Literature
… the centrality of London as a setting in English literature, interpretations and imaginations of the literary city have continually been re-written to incorporate new social norms. As the city expanded, concerns arose around the movement of women and children within the urban environment. These …
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Red Nostalgia in China: (Re)Writing Socialist History in Zhiqing (Educated Youth) Literature and Cinema
… different time,1 is afrequently-visited motif of literature and cinema in China since the 1980s. Red nostalgia, specifically, refers to the commemoration of the socialist times or “Red China” (1950s-1970s) in the postsocialist era. My dissertation plans to examine the theme of red nostalgia in …
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Die ongelooflike avonture van Afrikaanse filmaanpassings: filmic adaptations of Afrikaans literature with specific focus on novels, youth literature and stage plays
… namely that of filmic adaptations of Afrikaans literature. Specific focus will be given to adaptations of novels, youth literature and stage plays. Adaptation theory has, like the study of African cinemas, only very recently moved away from the popular essentialist, page- to -screen view of what …
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"Friends and foes on the battlefield": A study of Chinese and U.S. youth literature about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
… with U.S. as the latter’s major military ally—in youth literature published in mainland China and the United States from 1937 through 2007. The study is based on a sociopolitical analysis of the historical context in which Chinese and American youth literature about ethnic Chinese experiences …
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ʼn Ondersoek na die rol van die "verwonde" kind in die werk van enkele kinder- en jeugverhaalskrywers in navolging van Alice Miller
… process of authors who write children's and youth literature. The psychoanalytic theories of Alice Miller will be discussed with reference to a selection of her publications. Miller's theories are used to determine if the experiences and repressed emotions of an author's childhood play a role …
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Being a teen, tween and in-between girl in Mitchell's Plain: toward a heterogenous conception of youth agency in a Global South city
… the seminal works in South African everyday youth literature to orient my study to explore how youth in South Africa assert agency through everyday strategies. Using qualitative methods - photo voice, focus groups, mapping and individual interviews - with four teenage girls from a high school …
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Reading, Travel, and the Pedagogy of Growing Up in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
… national body.</p><p>My analysis reads specific youth literature about travel: Brigitte Augusti, Friedrich Pajeken) against depictions of youth reading about the wider world in the now-canonical texts of Realism: Wilhelm Raabe). I find two simultaneously existing, yet, contradictory strands of …
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Die representasie van omstrede kwessies in kontemporêre Afrikaanse jeugverhale
… controversial issues present in recent Afrikaans youth literature, the portrayal of those issues, and the ways in which solutions are offered for these issues are investigated. The argument follows from the assumption that the literature which the adolescent reads, has a directive value. Quite …
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Examining Cross-sector Collaboration to Support Implementation of the Ontario Public Health Standards – School Health Standard Guideline
… setting to promote the health of children and youth, and the Comprehensive School Health approach has been an evidence-based way to engage in this work with a demonstrated return on investment. Ontario has established commitment to the Comprehensive School Health approach through provincial …
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When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
… of figurative language and imagery in youth literature, illustrating how the Holocaust has been and continues to be represented and manipulated. Youth Holocaust literature, often a young person’s first introduction to the events of the Nazi genocide, exposes the ways we imagine, …
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Searching for Mirrors: An Exploration of Racial Diversity in South Carolina's Public Library Youth Collections
… how books for African American and Latino youth are collected in South Carolina's public libraries. With little previous research on multicultural collection development in public library youth services in practice, library and information science benefits from studies that explore the …
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Korean/Korean American adolescents' responses to young adult fiction and media created by Korean/Korean Americans
Multicultural children’s and young adult literature provides readers with various opportunities: to mirror their lives and reflect the meanings of their own experiences; to gain insight on social issues as well as personal issues; and to enhance cross-cultural awareness. How might Korean/Korean …
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
… of “sweet” Black children in contemporary youth literature by Black creators. It explores how this representation, especially by Black creators, affirms the cultural consumption of Black children and contributes to their continued dehumanization. I build a methodological framework drawing …
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#BlackBoyYALit: Seeing Black boys in 21st century young adult literature
… Educators and librarians’ value young adult literature not only for its role in developing adolescent literacy, but also for its ability to help teens to affirm their identities, observe how others deal with problems, and connect emotionally or psychologically with characters. Yet for more …
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Invisible Scarlet O'neil and the Whitman authorized editions for girls: homefront representations of the american feminine and the feminine heroic during World War II
… fiction, this dissertation helps bridge the literature gap between propaganda studies and children’s popular fiction. Further, the cultural definitions and uses of Denning (1987), Cawelti (1976), and Wright (2001) are extended to examine a set of formula fictions based on newspaper strips, …
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The relevance of Nyambedzano as an effective process for promoting morality among the youth
Literature and media reports constantly show increased incidences of ill-discipline and lawlessness amongst the youth. These misdemeanours adversely affect communities and the behaviour of the youth as active, responsible and proactive members of the society and community members. Unfortunately, …