The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
University Press of Mississippi · Paperback · May 23, 2022
2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books , Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues.
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- Who it’s for
- Jennifer Miller traces LGBTQ+ picture books’ changing representations and material conditions since the 1970s.
- Genres
- Queer Literary Criticism, Children's Lit Crit, LGBTQ+ Studies
- Published
- University Press of Mississippi, May 23, 2022
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2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books , Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present.
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Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children’s picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality. Read more
Picture Book Archive
Jennifer Miller traces LGBTQ+ picture books’ changing representations and material conditions since the 1970s.
Come here for
- An archive of more than 150 English-language picture books
- A reading lens called critical optimism
Expect
- Analysis of representational shifts from the 1970s to the present
- Attention to production, distribution, and consumption constraints
Where it sits
| Children's Lit Crit | 86% |
|---|---|
| Queer Literary Criticism | 51% |
| LGBTQ+ Studies | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Queer Literary Criticism
- Children's Lit Crit
- LGBTQ+ Studies
- Authors
- Jennifer Miller
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- May 23, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Queer Literary Criticism