The Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture

Contemporary Eastern Europe and Beyond

Svetlana Efimova, Marina Balina (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-16565-1 (ISBN)

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This edited volume proposes a new perspective on how children's literature interacts with politics: its chapters focus not only on politics and literature or politics in literature, but primarily on the politics of text and image. Following Jacques Rancière's philosophy, the collection understands The Politics of Text and Image in Children's Culture as an aesthetic (re)configuration of world perception that shapes both the individual subjectivity of young readers/viewers and their sense of belonging to different communities. The volume's focus on Eastern Europe reflects the contemporary political realities of the region. It embraces new texts from Belarusian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian, independent Russian, and post-Soviet Russophone children's and young adult (YA) literature. The collection combines this unique focus on Eastern Europe with a broad, systematic, and global perspective. It includes chapters on transnational trends in contemporary children's literature and on the productive dialogue taking place between Eastern European, Central Asian, and North American cultural spaces. This volume brings together established scholars from Austria, Croatia, Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, and the United States. It is intended primarily for scholars of children's literature and culture, educational studies, and Eastern European and Slavic studies.

Svetlana Efimova is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Media Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Her research encompasses Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian literature and culture, with particular focus on the interplay between aesthetics and politics, contemporary children’s literature, intermediality, transcultural writing, and generative artificial intelligence. Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor Emerita and Professor of Russian Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. The focus of her scholarship is on historical and theoretical aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian children’s literature and culture.

Svetlana Efimova and Marina Balina: The Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture: Introduction

Section I. Working for the Future: Shaping an Engaged Reader through Image and Text

Marek Oziewicz (University of Minnesota, USA): The Politics of Climate Literacy in Picturebooks: Three Strategies for Shaping Ecocentric Attitudes with Text and Images

Carmen Sippl (University College of Teacher Education, Lower Austria): Decoding Picturebooks in/as a Futures Literacy Lab: Imaginings of the Future in Contemporary German-Language Picturebooks

Svetlana Efimova (LMU Munich, Germany): Individual Agency in Contemporary Belarusian and Russian Picturebooks: Empowerment and Critical Thinking

Karoline Thaidigsmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany): Concepts of Socially Engaged Polish Children’s Literature of the Twenty-First Century

Enikő Dácz (LMU Munich, Germany): The Realm of Tales and Poems as an Ideological Battlefield in Contemporary Hungarian Children’s Literature

Section II. The Politics of Memory: Visualizing Text, Textualizing Image

Daria Semenova (Vilnius University, Lithuania): Illustrated History for Pre-School Ukrainians: Stories About History and the Collective Memory Narrative

Mateusz Świetlicki (University of Wrocław, Poland): Politics of Memory and Present-Day Politics in Ukrainian-Themed American Historical Fiction for Young People

Anastasia Ulanowicz (University of Florida, USA): Haunted Memories: Representations of Eastern European Immigration in Vera Brosgol’s Be Prepared and Anya’s Ghost

Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA): The Presence of the Past: Transmitting War Memory in Contemporary Russian YA Literature

Laure Thibonnier-Limpek (Université Grenoble Alpes, France): War and Peace in Children’s Drawings: Visual Canon between the Leningrad Siege and Today’s Russia

Section III. Textual and Visual Construction of Social Worlds in the Twenty-First Century

Maria Mayofis (Amherst College, USA): Imagined Social Worlds: Assembling Diversity in Contemporary Post-Soviet Children's Literatures

Larissa Rudova (Pomona College, USA): The Queering of Childhood in Mikita Franko’s Fiction: New Characters and New Parenthood

Dorota Michułka (University of Wrocław, Poland): From Liminality to Resilience: Migratory Experience in Contemporary Polish Literature for Children and Young Adults

Smiljana Narančić Kovač (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Leaving and Finding Home: War and Refugees in Croatian Picturebooks

Anne Hultsch (University of Vienna, Austria): “Where Is My Home?” Searching for National Identity in Czech Children’s and YA Literature

Bella Delacroix Ostromooukhova (Sorbonne University, France): “Home Is Where Your Books Are”: Children’s Literature for a New Wave of Russian Emigration

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	Children's Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	10 Halftones, color; 10 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-041-16565-X / 104116565X
ISBN-13	978-1-041-16565-1 / 9781041165651
Zustand	Neuware