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Intro
Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
List of figures
Introduction
References
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Secondary sources
Chapter 1. Shades of feeling. Brightness, dramatic irony, and risk in A Perfect Day and Grandpa Green
Introduction
Universals and light
Brightness on a need-to-know basis
Brightness, emotion, and narrative mood
Relative brightness
Relative brightness and dramatic irony: Lane Smith's A Perfect Day
Risk and relative brightness: Lane Smith's Grandpa Green
Conclusion
References
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Secondary sources
Chapter 2. The sublimity of darkness and its affective transmission and subduing in picturebooks
Introduction: Darkness, affect, and the sublime
Transmitting the sublime: The darkness of the universe
Gothic darkness and the affective transmission of fear
Darkness aestheticized through light colors, anthropomorphism, cuteness, adventure narratives, and humor
Being brave and staying safe: Darkness in the context of risk, protection and agency
References
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Chapter 3. Tengo Miedo. Evolving representations of fear in Colombia
Introduction
Tengo Miedo, two versions
Ivar Da Coll and Colombia's picturebook publishing industry
Tengo Miedo (1989), a picturebook of innocent fears
Tengo Miedo (2012), a reimagined picturebook
Two picturebooks with the same name: An analysis
Conclusion
References
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Secondary sources
Chapter 4. Literalizing emotions in Disney and Pixar. Frozen and Inside Out challenge emotional hierarchies
Introduction
'With a smile and a song': Disney's treatment of female emotion in early films
Frozen: Challenging emotional interiority
Inside out: Challenging 'bad' emotions.

Conclusion
References
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Chapter 5. The angry caregiver. Gendered emotion in the Penderwicks series and the One Crazy Summer trilogy
Introduction
The ethics of care and gendered emotions
The feminist emotions of the Penderwicks
From "angry and afraid" to "spilling over mad": Caregiver anger and racial justice
Conclusion
References
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Chapter 6. Sad girls. Melancholy and adolescence in Skating the Edge and Touching Earth Lightly
Introduction
The pursuit of unhappiness
Girls and feelings
Melancholy
Melancholy and institutionalization in Skating the Edge
Melancholy desire in Touching Earth Lightly
The pursuit of happiness as the pursuit of adulthood in Skating the Edge
Achieving adulthood through queer disavowal in Touching Earth Lightly
Conclusion
References
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Chapter 7. The cultural politics of confidence in Chetan Bhagat's select fiction. Language and nation in twenty-first century India
Introduction
History and emotion, twenty-first century India and the emotion confidence
Confidence and futurity through language in Bhagat's novels: Young India's national identity
Conclusion
References
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Secondary sources
Chapter 8. The affective construction of Chinese child citizenship in Little Friend, 1945-1949
Introduction
The history of Little Friend
A visually formulated promise in the physical labor
Geographical empathy
Conclusion
References
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Secondary sources
Chapter 9. Taking the reluctance out of reluctant reading. Frustration, shame, and curiosity in literacy narratives
Introduction
Affective pedagogy: A primer
Shame
Frustration
Wonder.

Conclusion: What does 'reluctance' mean? who feels reluctance?
References
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Chapter 10. Emotion and the work of decolonization. The case of Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw
Introduction
A moving story: Affect and the production of knowledge
Repetition and accumulation: Reading emotion
References
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Contributors
Index.

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