Critical content analysis of children's and young adult literature : reframing perspective

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Preface
1 Critical Content Analysis as a Research Methodology
2 The Critical Reading of Children’s Texts: Theories, Methodologies, and Critiques
3 Examining Displaced Youth and Immigrant Status through Critical Multicultural Analysis
4 Using Intertextuality to Unpack Representations of Immigration in Children’s Literature
5 When Entertainment Trumps Social Concerns: The Commodification of Mexican Culture and Language in Skippyjon Jones
6 “Having Something of Their Own”: Passing on a Counter-Story about Family Bonds, Racism, and Land Ownership
7 Representations of Same Sex Marriage in Children’s Picture Storybooks
8 Re-Imagining an Alternative Life after the Darfur War: Writing as Emancipatory Practice
9 The Significance of the Arts in Literature: Understanding Social, Historical, and Cultural Events
10 The Right to Participate: Children as Activists in Picturebooks
11 Blurred Lines: The Construction of Adolescent Sexuality in Young Adult Novels
12 A Poststructural Discourse Analysis of a Novel Set in Haiti
13 Connecting Critical Content Analysis to Critical Reading in Classrooms
About the Authors
Index