37.2487, Books: Names, Naming, Diversity, and Identity in Youth Literature: Nick (ed.) (2026)

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Date: 23-Jul-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Names, Naming, Diversity, and Identity in Youth Literature: Nick (ed.) (2026)


Title: Names, Naming, Diversity, and Identity in Youth Literature
Series Title: Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/names-naming-diversity-and-identity-in-youth-literature-9781666975864/

Editor(s): I.M. Nick

Hardback, 9781666975864, £80.00

Abstract:

Recent years have seen a significant increase in works of fiction that
champion and celebrate diversity and inclusion for young readers. At
the same time, the world has witnessed a radical backlash against
youth literature that positively explores issues of individual
difference and group belonging.
This multi-authored volume explores this growing tension and features
chapters that critically examine how youth literature use names and
naming to present child, adolescent, teen, and tween readers to the
world's ethnic, cultural, linguistic, neurological, religious,
diversity. The contributors to this work represent themselves a
kaleidoscope of cultural and linguistic backgrounds while sharing a
common academic background in literature and onomastics. Although the
primary geographic focus of the chapters selected for this publication
is Anglo-American a supplementary call for chapter proposals has
explicitly solicited additional proposals that have a broader,
international, range.
The editor is an internationally recognized expert in investigation of
names and naming. She is the past president of the American Name
Society, one of the world's oldest and largest scholarly societies
devoted to onomastic research.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language




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