[EDLING:1112] CFP: New Directions in Children's Literature

[Francis M Hult]

> Call for Papers:  New Directions in Children's Literature
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> Children's Literature Discussion Circle
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> South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference
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>  November 10th - 12th, 2006
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> Charlotte, NC 
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> Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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> *	the birth of 'tween culture and the shifting nature of YA literature
> *	the continued impact of Heather Has Two Mommies, Annie on My Mind and King and King and the increasing depiction of nonheteronormative sexual identities in children's literature
> *	the influence of new media and the hybridization of children's reading material
> *	the phenomenal success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and the growing commercialization of children's literature
> *	the rise of graphic novels and the transformation of children's pictorial narratives
> *	the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the recent devastation of the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the changing treatment of trauma, war and natural disaster in children's narratives
> *	the increasingly multicultural nature of writing about and for young readers
> *	the ongoing treatment of globalization, white Western imperialism and postcolonialism in children's books 
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> One-page abstracts or eight-page papers by March 15th, 2006 to Michelle Ann Abate at mabate at hollins.edu