For the Little Queers

Imagining Queerness in "New" Queer Children's Literature

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3620922
AutoresJennifer Miller (0000-0002-4319-252X, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume66
Fascículo12
Páginas1645-1670
Data de publicação2019-10-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2018.1514204
PMID30199349
OpenAlexW2891393577
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas20

This article identifies and analyzes an emerging archive of children's picture books that represent transgender and gender creative child characters. The subgenre of children's literature is referred to as new queer children's literature. The author explores the ways these texts represent queer youth as they negotiate various social institutions, especially the family and the school. It is suggested that an ambivalent reading of these images-one neither committed to anti-normativity nor assimilation-can help us understand the queer present at its most affirmative and, by extension, aid us in beginning to theorize possible queer futures

Ambivalence · Futures contract · Heteronormativity · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Transgender · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis