Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
ISSN 1837-4530
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature Papers was originally published by Magpies Magazine as a publication for a professional and general readership interested in children’s literature. Since its inauguration in 1990, it has evolved into the premier Australian journal in children’s literature with a worldwide circulation. In 2009, Papers appeared as a free, open access online journal. Papers is fully-refereed and all submissions undergo a blind reviewing process by members of the journal’s international reviewing board. Papers publishes scholarly writing on all aspects of children's fiction – canonical, modern and contemporary. While the editors welcome articles on Australian material, we do not limit Papers to articles only on Australian works. Articles might include theoretical perspectives, comparative analysis, discussions of texts of historical interest, and bibliographical essays which also provide a scholarly overview of the works listed. Papers publishes two issues each year, which include six or seven essays and occasional review essays of recent books on children’s literature. Themed issues are announced through a Call for Papers and may be edited by invited guest editors. Papers is published by Deakin University and Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR). Welcome to the inaugural online, open access issue of Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature.
Clare Bradford and Kerry Mallan, Editors
Announcements
Call for Papers: Special issue |
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Children's Literature Collections and Archives Globally there exist numerous specialist collections of children's literature. These are variously located in university, public, and private libraries, museums, and archives. While specialist collections vary in terms of space, resources, services and documentation designed for children's literature, their common purpose is to collect, preserve, and offer access to texts that have been published for children over many years. The advent of digital technology and the application of Web 2.0 technologies have extended the ways texts are recorded and distributed, as well as how users can interact with the collections. This special issue of Papers is interested in collections of children's literature and related scholarship, in how collections are organised, managed and used, and in the relationship between these collections and academic scholarship in children's literature. Some of the approaches to papers for this special issue may include (but are not restricted to) the following topics:
Submissions due: 5 April 2012. |
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| Posted: 2011-11-01 | More... |
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Vol 20, No 2 (2010)
Table of Contents
Articles
| '“I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury”: “Tail”-Telling, Imperialism and the Other in _Alice in Wonderland_' | Abstract PDF |
| Caroline Webb | 1-10 |
| From Colonial Superstition to the Hairyman: Aboriginality and the Politics of Race | Abstract PDF |
| Juliet O'Conor | 11-24 |
| “Dreams do come true in New Orleans”: American fairy tales, Post-Katrina New Orleans, and Disney’s The Princess and the Frog (2009) | Abstract PDF |
| Radhiah Zaman Chowdhury | 25-40 |
| “Carnival” – More than a jolly Name: Margaret Mahy’s The Tricksters and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Carnival Theory | Abstract PDF PDF |
| Babette Puetz | 41-52 |
| Dance on my Grave: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Queer Adolescents | Abstract PDF |
| Dawn Thompson | 53-69 |
| Metaphors of monstrosity: The werewolf as disability and illness in Harry Potter and Jatta | Abstract PDF |
| Roslyn Weaver | 70-83 |