Immaturity: Reflections on the “Great (Queer) YA Debate”

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Derritt Mason
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The New Yorker

This book’s conclusion reiterates the argument that queer YA is an anxious genre that perpetually rehearses a nervous uncertainty about its own constitution. Mason steps back to consider queer YA’s relationship to children’s literature more broadly, entering the discussion through a concept developed in Beverley Lyon Clark’s Kiddie Lit: the “anxiety of immaturity” that circulates around and within children’s literature and its criticism. Mason revisits the “Great YA Debate” of 2014, which followed a Slate piece by Ruth Graham entitled “Adults Should Be Embarrassed to Read Young Adult Books.” This debate included high profile pieces by Christopher Beha and A.O. Scott in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, both of which evince a profound ambivalence about whether or not adults should be reading young adult literature. These conversations, Mason concludes, illustrate how young adult literature continues to be an unceasing source of adult anxiety.

scholarly journals Are You Being Sirred? Work in Progress, Nanette, Douglas, and the New Butch Middlebrow

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
Sarah Kessler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
New Comedy ◽  
The New Yorker

Abby McEnany’s new comedy series Work in Progress (Showtime) and Hannah Gadsby’s recent standup specials Nanette and Douglas (Netflix) evoke “butch middlebrow,” a contemporary aesthetic and affective sensibility distinguished by the cozy reception it enjoys among straight, white, liberal viewers and critics. McEnany’s and Gadsby’s works have occasioned praise from cosmopolitan gatekeepers like the New York Times and the New Yorker for their self-aware brands of comedy rooted in unvarnished portrayals of butch trauma. Critics ritually insist on the implausibility of Gadsby’s and McEnany’s success, but the popularity of these queer creators’ offerings is not as unlikely as so often presumed. Indeed, the middlebrow butch’s alleged improbability does not render her cultural accolades improbable; it may even ensure them, allowing a new canon of butch respectability to emerge in the light shed by the beacons of aspirational culture.

scholarly journals Reflexiones sobre el movimiento Me Too y su filosofía

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Milner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Pulp Fiction ◽  
The New Yorker

En octubre de 2017, The New York Times y The New Yorker publicaron decenas de acusaciones de abuso sexual contra el productor cinematográfico y ejecutivo estadounidense Harvey Weinstein por acoso, abuso sexual e incluso violaciones. Fue el inicio del movimiento «Me Too», conocido también por su hashtag «#MeToo», viralizado a través de redes sociales por más de medio millón de personas, entre ellas muchas celebridades. El 11 de marzo de 2020 Weinstein fue sentenciado a 23 años de prisión. Harvey Weinstein se había hecho famoso en la década del 80 cuando junto a suhermano Bob fundaron la legendaria compañía Miramax. Como productor, Weinstein fue el artífice de grandes éxitos, como Shakespeare in Love (1998), Gangs of New York (2002), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Smoke (1995), El paciente inglés (1996) -por la que obtuvo su primer Óscar de la Academia-, Scream (1996), Inglourious Basterds (2009), El discurso del rey (2010), y The Artist (2011), entre muchas otros. La revelación de las escandalosas inconductas sexuales de Wainstein, que motivó su expulsión de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, abrió un debate sobre el séptimo arte, la lógica del mercado y el tratamiento de los cuerpos en el capitalismo. Este artículo de Jean-Claude Milner, constituye seguramente la reflexión filosófico-analítica más profunda sobre el tema. Etica y Cine Journal lo publica por primera vez en español con la cuidada traducción y notas de Valentín Huarte, como un imprescindible aporte a una discusión que debe permanecer abierta bajo cualquier circunstancia.

scholarly journals Constitution Illustrated

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Gwen Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Illustrated Books ◽  
Cartoon Characters ◽  
The New Yorker

Fans of comics and cartoons will revel in the creative deployment of characters from the funny pages throughout Constitution Illustrated. Artist R. Sikoryak is a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review and is the author of several illustrated books. In his latest work, he has concocted an ingenious ploy to enliven the text of the Constitution. Each page features a different section of the Constitution being recited by cartoon characters. Sikoryak has imitated the style and borrowed the characters of dozens of cartoonists. Readers will find favorites both classic and contemporary, from Bud Counihan’s Betty Boop and Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy to Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For and Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor. Aficionados will have fun figuring out the artist being imitated on each page, and a helpful index provides a key to the source of each drawing for those who aren’t able to recognize the myriad cartoonists represented.

scholarly journals Intentional Diversity: Program Ideas from the Field

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Africa Hands
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Black People ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Opinion Piece

The year 2014 was a watershed one for bringing awareness to the issue of diversity in children’s literature. The late author Walter Dean Myers wrote a stirring opinion piece for the New York Times about the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s (CCBC) report revealing that of the thirty-two-hundred children’s books published in 2013, only ninety-three were about black people.

Child

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
To Come

In the conclusion of The Child to Come, the book asks, ‘What happens when the life figured by the child--innocent, self-similar human life at home on a homely Earth--no longer has the strength to hold back the vitality that animates it?’ This chapter looks at two kinds of texts that consider this question: Anthropocene cinema and Young Adult Fiction. By focusing on the role of human action, the Anthropocene obscures a far more threatening reality: the collapse of the regulative. In relation, both children’s literature and young adult literature grow out of and as disciplinary apparatuses trained on that fraught transit between the presumptive difference of those still in their minority and the socially necessary sameness that is inscribed into fully attained adulthood.

scholarly journals Understanding (dis)abilities through children’s literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Kurtts ◽  
Karen W. Gavigan
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Related Literature

The authors of this article examined how pre-service teachers can use children’s and young adult literature about disabilities to enhance understanding of individual differences through a bibliotherapeutic approach. An introduction to bibliotherapy is provided along with related literature from the field. Strategies for using children’s and young adult literature to enhance the understanding of issues associated with disabilities are presented along with one teacher candidate’s application of the literature in her classroom. The authors have also included a selected bibliography of children’s literature on disabilities as well as relevant websites.

Moving Beyond the Textbook to Reframe Disciplinary Literacy Using Text Sets

2021 ◽  
pp. 545-565
Author(s):  
Marie A. LeJeune ◽  
Melanie Landon-Hays
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Disciplinary Literacy ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Literature Instruction ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Multimodal Texts

This chapter details the authors' rationale for encouraging a hybrid content-area/disciplinary literacy approach to embracing diverse literature, especially youth-oriented literature such as children's literature, young adult literature, and multimodal texts. A synthesis of research in the areas of disciplinary literacy and literature instruction is provided as well as a recommended framework for selecting diverse literature within disciplinary classrooms. Several pedagogical tools are featured where preservice teachers have opportunities to explore, practice with, apply, and design their own disciplinary assignments centered in diverse literature and disciplinary texts. Examples and perspectives from preservice teachers are shared.

Notes on an Anxious Genre: Queer Young Adult Literature and Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
Derritt Mason
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Oriented Growth ◽  
Queer Youth ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
Queer Temporality

This chapter traces the emergence of queer themes and characters in young adult literature, as well as critical commentary on queer YA, to demonstrate how anxiety is the affective form that best characterizes this subgenre of children’s literature. Mason argues that, in the long tradition of children’s literature criticism, queer YA criticism functions as an illuminating index of anxieties about how adults address queer youth. This chapter draws on sociological work on adolescence, as well as psychoanalytic theorists Adam Phillips and Julia Kristeva, to illustrate how adolescence and young adult literature are themselves the products of adult anxiety. Anxiety characterizes the affective economy through which queer young adult literature circulates, Mason argues, while itself evincing a queer temporality that places delay and forward-oriented growth in tension with one another. Overall, Mason demonstrates the utility of children’s literature and its theories for thinking more broadly about adult concerns and anxieties.

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