Publication of Jeunesse 1, no. 2

The Winter 2009 issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, and Cultures has now been published! It includes an editorial by co-editor Mavis Reimer, reviews by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jenny Kendrick, and Jamie Paris, and a forum entitled “‘The Child,’ Childhood, and Children: Defining our Terms,” with contributions by Margaret Steffler, Mona Gleason, Patrizia Albanese, Shauna Pomerantz, and Julia Emberley. It also features the following articles:

• Toward a Zeroth Voice: Theorizing Voice in Children’s Literature with Deleuze / Jane Newland
• Little Red Riding Hood and the Pedophile in Film: Freeway, Hard Candy, and The Woodsman / Pauline Greenhill and Steven Kohm
• Retraduire un classique: Dépoussiérer Alice? / Isabelle Nières-Chevrel
• “Better Friends”: Marshall Saunders Writing Humane Education and Envisioning Animal Rights / Roxanne Harde

Subscriptions to Jeunesse include open access to all issues of Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse. Back issues of this journal are also available.

CFP: Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures

The new journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, published at the University of Winnipeg, is currently soliciting submissions for future issues.

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is a bilingual, 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. Our scope is international; while we have a special interest in Canada, we welcome submissions concerning all areas and cultures. We are especially interested in the cultural functions and representations of “the child.” This can include children’s and young adult literature and media; young people’s material culture, including toys; digital culture and young people; historical and contemporary constructions, functions, and roles of “the child” and adolescents; and literature, art, and films by children and young adults. We welcome articles in both English and French.

Articles may be submitted as attachments in Word or RTF format to: jeunesse@uwinnipeg.ca.

Alternatively, submit three copies on paper, along with a stamped, self-addressed return envelope, to:

Mavis Reimer, General Editor of Jeunesse
Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
Canada

All submissions should conform to MLA style.  The name of the author should be removed from the submission and appear on a separate page along with contact information (including phone number and e-mail address) and a 100-word abstract.

New Website for Jeunesse

As was reported in the editorial to its Fall 2008 issue, the academic journal Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse—published at the University of Guelph from 1975 to 2004 and at the University of Winnipeg from 2005 onward—will be rebranded as of the Spring 2009 issue. The new journal—called Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures—can be found at http://jeunessejournal.ca/.

New website for SCL/ÉLC

The journal Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, published by the University of New Brunswick since 1975, has recently launched a new website through the Open Journal Systems platform, featuring open-access digitized versions of the bulk of their issues in PDF format.

Issue 34.1 of CCL/LCJ

I’m pleased to report that issue 34.1 (Spring 2008) of Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse is almost ready. I updated the website today to include the table of contents of this latest issue. The issue contains contributions by a number of international scholars: articles by Jackie C. Horne, Marlene Kadar, Monique Noël-Gaudreault and Flore Gervais, and Judith Thistleton-Martin. In our “Views, Reviews, & Interviews” section, you will find responses to a piece by Sebastien Chapleau published in issue 33.2 (Fall 2007) by Suzanne Pouliot, François Paré, Peter E. Cumming, Virginie Douglas, Laura M. Robinson, Kiera Vaclavik, and Evelyn Airzpe, as well as review articles by Kerry Mallan, Jean Stringam, and John J. Guiney Yallop. To order your copy, subscribe today!