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Prizing children's literature : the cultural politics of children's book awards / edited by Kenneth B. Kidd and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

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New York : Routledge, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
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1 online resource
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Kidd, Kenneth B. and Thomas, Joseph T., 1972-
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1. Prizing national and transnational : Australian texts in the Printz Award / Clare Bradford -- 2. Prizing the unrecognized : systems of value, visibility, and the first world in international and translated children's texts / Abbie Ventura -- 3. The guys are the prize : adolescent fiction, masculinity, and the political unconscious of Australian book awards / Erica Hateley -- 4. How award-winning children's non-fiction complicates stereotypes / Joe Sutliff Sanders ... [et al.] -- 5. The last bastion of aesthetics? Formalism and the rhetoric of excellence in children's literary awards / Robert Bittner and Michelle Superle -- 6. The still almost all-white world of children's literature : theory, practice, and identity-based children's book awards / June Cummins -- 7. The Pura Belpré Medal : the Latino/a child in America, the "need" for diversity, and name-branding latinidad / Marilisa Jiménez García -- 8. Peter's legacy : the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award / Ramona Caponegro -- 9. Race and the prizing of children's literature in Canada : spotlighting Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards / Barbara McNeil -- 10. Finding nominations : children's films at the Academy Awards / Peter C. Kunze -- 11. Prizing popularity : how the blockbuster book has reshaped children's literature / Rebekah Fitzsimmons -- 12. The archive award, or the case of de Grummond's gold / Emily Murphy -- 13. Apologia / Michael Joseph and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. -- 14. Prizing in the Children's Literature Association / Kenneth B. Kidd.
Summary
"Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children's book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the United States. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural capital. Sections interrogate the complex and often unconscious ideological work of prizing, the ongoing tension between formalist awards and so-called identity-based awards - all the more urgent in light of the "We Need Diverse Books" campaign - the ever-morphing forms and parameters of prizing, and scholarly practices of prizing. Among the many awards discussed are the Pura Belpré Medal, the Inky Awards, the Canada Governor General Literary Award, the Printz Award, the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Phoenix Award, and the John Newbery Medal, giving due attention to prizes for fiction as well as for non-fiction, poetry, and film. This volume will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social history, book history, sociology, education, library and information science, and anyone concerned with children's literature"--
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9781317231424 (electronic bk.)
1317231422 (electronic bk.)
9781315625249 (electronic bk.)
1315625245 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Class of 1960 Libraries Endowment; 2017
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Class of 1960 Libraries Endowment
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