Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (2013 Summer Issue)

The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that the 2013 Summer Issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is now available.

The following sections are open access:

- Editorial, “Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street” by Mavis Reimer
- Review essays by Judith Saltman, Perry Nodelman, Paul Tiessen, Heather Milne, and Jenny Wills

Articles in this issue include:

 

- Cheryl Cowdy's "Do Something! Disciplinary Spaces and the Ideological Work of Play in James De Mille’s The “B. O. W. C.” and Richard Scrimger’s Into the Ravine"

- Michelle Beissel Heath's "Oh, Golly, What a Happy Family! Trajectories of Citizenship and Agency in Three Twentieth-Century Book Series for Children"

- Caroline E. Jones's "Unpleasant Consequences: First Sex in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, and Gilmore Girls"

- Helene Staveley's "Figuring Transition: Play, Performance, and Mimicry in Children’s Books by Thomas King, Mordecai Richler, and Margaret Atwood"

- Kevin Mitchell's "‘A Copy of a Copy of a Copy’: Productive Repetition in Fight Club"

 

Housed in the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) and produced under the sponsorship of the Vice-President (Research) and the Dean of Arts at the University of Winnipeg, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is an interdisciplinary, refereed academic journal whose mandate is to publish research on and to provide a forum for discussion about cultural productions for, by, and about young people.

More information on how to submit papers and how to subscribe can be found on our website: http://jeunessejournal.ca.

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