Winter Issue of Jeunesse now on line

The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that the 2011 Winter Issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is now available!

The following sections are open access:

- Editorial by Heather Snell and Doris Wolf

- Forum on Theorizing Young People, including essays by Mavis Reimer and charlie peters, Loren Lerner, Nat Hurley, and Claudia Ruitenberg

- Review essays by Perry Nodelman, Jonathan Ball, and Julie Cairnie

Articles in this issue include:

Debra Dudek's "Disturbing Thoughts: Representations of Compassion in Two Picture Books Entitled The Island"
Chen-Wei Yu's "Childhood, Identity Politics, and Linguistic Negotiation in the Traditional Chinese Translation of the Picture Book The Gruffalo in Taiwan"

Stéphanie Danaux's “Henri Beaulac et la modernisation de l’illustration pour la jeunesse au Québec"
Meghan M. Sweeney's "“Where Happily Ever After Happens Every Day”: Disney’s Official Princess Website and the Commodification of Play"

Housed in the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) and produced under the sponsorship of the Associate 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.