Volume 10 Number 1 July 2017 The Journal of the International Research Society for Children s Literature Edinburgh University Press
International Research in Children s Literature aims to be essential reading for the literary scholar in the field of children s literature. The study of children s literature is increasingly being recognised as an integral part of literary studies, and the rapid expansion of the subject area highlights the need for a scholarly journal that is international in scope. Senior Editor Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University, UK Executive Editor Mark Macleod, Charles Sturt University, Australia Reviews Editor Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw, Poland Advisory Board Kerry Mallan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Robyn McCallum, independent scholar Australia John Stephens, Macquarie University, Australia Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg, Canada Nina Christensen, Aarhus University, Denmark Emer O Sullivan, Leuphana University, Germany Dagný Kristjánsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland Anto Thomas, St Thomas College, India Valerie Coghlan, independent scholar, Ireland Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Tilburg University and Leiden University, The Netherlands. Astrid Surmatz, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Judith Inggs, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Andrea Mei-Ying Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Farah Mendelsohn, Staffordshire University, UK Maria Nikolajeva, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK Dianne Johnson, University of South Carolina, USA Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota, USA Lynne Vallone, Rutgers University, USA This journal is available online at www.euppublishing.com ISSN 1755-6198 eissn 1755-6201 Two issues per year, published in July and December. Published by Edinburgh University Press, The Tun Holyrood Road, 12(2f) Jackson s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ. Email: journals@eup.ed.ac.uk www.euppublishing.com/journals Edinburgh University Press, 2017. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recorded or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency Limited, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS, UK. Cover image: Logo for the 2017 congress of the International Research Society for Children s Literature created by Peter Cumming, York University, Toronto, Canada. The image was inspired by Charles Robinson s 1895 illustrations for Aesop s Fables
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INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN CHILDREN S LITERATURE Volume 10 Issue 1 July 2017 Published by Edinburgh University Press Contents Editorial: A few thoughts on the role of journals and academic freedom of speech Kimberley Reynolds v Palimpsestuous Intertextualities Film Adaptation, Global Film Techniques and Cross-Cultural Viewing 1 Sung-Ae Lee, Fengxia Tan and John Stephens Research in Action The Innocence Project An Online Exhibition and Archive on Children and Comics in the 1940s and 1950s 20 Andrew O Malley Articles The Place of Girls in the Traditions of Minstrelsy and Recitation 39 Lynne Vallone Staring into All Their Yellow Eyes : Where the Wild Things Are,the 1960s, and the Vietnam War 59 Michelle Ann Abate and Sarah Bradford Fletcher The Polemics of Real and Imagined Childhood(s) in India 74 Anto Thomas Chakramakkil Here Always : Time and Place in the Archive of Green Knowe 89 Rebecca Long
Reviews Global Perspectives on Death in Children s Literature. Eds Lesley D. Clement and Leyli Jamali 102 Reviewed by Ada Bieber Frontiers in American Children s Literature. Eds Dorothy Clark and Linda Salem 104 Reviewed by Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar Children s Literature and Culture of the First World War. Eds Lissa Paul, Rosemary Ross Johnston and Emma Short 106 Reviewed by Anja Müller Children s and Young Adult Literature and Culture: A Mosaic of Criticism. Ed. Amie A. Doughty 108 Reviewed by Blanka Grzegorczyk Jakten på fortellinger: Barne- og ungdomslitteratur på tvers av medier [The hunt for narratives: children s and youth literature across media]. Ed. Elise Seip Tønnessen 110 Reviewed by Eivind Karlsson Genocide in Contemporary Children s and Young Adult Literature: Cambodia to Darfur. Jane M. Gangi 112 Reviewed by Victoria Flanagan Human Rights in Children s Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of the Law. Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higginbotham 115 Reviewed by Anastasia Ulanowicz British Hymn Books for Children, 1800 1900: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre 117 Reviewed by J. R. Watson