The Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that the 2013 Winter Issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is now available.

The following sections are open access:

– Editorial, “The Child of Nature and the Home Child” by Mavis Reimer
– Review essays by Rose-May Pham Dinh, Naomi Hamer, and Laurel J. Felt

Articles in this issue include:

– Zetta Elliott’s “The Trouble with Magic: Conjuring the Past in New York City Parks”

– Virginie Douglas’s “Charlotte Sometimes de Penelope Farmer, entre Histoire nationale et histoire individuelle, identité collective et identité personnelle”

– Frosoulla Kofterou’s “Mickey Mouse Gas Masks and Wonderlands: Constructing Ideas of Trauma within Exhibitions about Children and War”

– Christa Jones’s “Sufi Mysticism and Dreams in Nabil Ayouch’s Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets“

– Teya Rosenberg’s “Cultural Preservation and Metropolitan Transformation: Folk-Tale Traditions and The Queen of Paradise’s Garden, a Newfoundland Jack Tale”

– Rachel Conrad’s “’We Are Masters at Childhood’: Time and Agency in Poetry by, for, and about Children”

Housed in the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) and produced under the sponsorship of the Vice-President (Research) and the Dean of Arts at the University of Winnipeg, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is an interdisciplinary, refereed academic journal whose mandate is to publish research on and to provide a forum for discussion about cultural productions for, by, and about young people.

More information on how to submit papers and how to subscribe can be found on our website:http://jeunessejournal.ca.

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