Angela E. Hubler is an associate professor of women's studies at Kansas State University, USA. She has published essays in the Lion and the Unicorn, ChLA Quarterly, Critical Survey, Papers on Language and Literature, NWSA Journal, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Against the Current.
Little Red Readings is a big deal and great stuff! Thanks to Angela
Hubler and the contributors to this significant book on historical
materialism and children's literature, we can grasp more clearly
why it is necessary to study the class conflicts and socio-economic
relations that forge the very nature of children's literature.
Indeed, Hubler's book is very timely, because we tend to evade
talking about the causes of the immiseration of children while
praising noteworthy books that deal with the denigration and abuse
of children. There is no evasion in Little Red Readings, and let us
hope there will be more readings like this in the future.--Jack
Zipes, author of The Irresistible Fairy Tale
Little Red Readings makes a major contribution to historical
materialist criticism and to children's literature criticism. The
thirteen essays by outstanding scholars offer a wonderful variety
of historical materialist approaches to a range of topics within
children's and young adult literature, and the introduction offers
a useful overview of historical materialism as a methodology. And,
the essays are a great read!--Julia Mickenberg, author of Learning
from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical
Politics in the United States
Angela Hubler's Little Red Readings is an historical materialist
primer for children's lit scholars and a call to action. It's
Marxist. It's feminist. It's radical. Read it!--Philip Nel, author
of Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found
Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature
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