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2022

Dandapat, Sridipa, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Making Men out of Boys: Revisiting Connell through Twenty-First-Century Indian Picture Books.” Boyhood Studies, vol. 15, no. 1-2, 2022. [Forthcoming https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/boyhood-studies-overview.xml?tab_body=forthcoming]

Singh, Shikha. “The Cultural Politics of Storytelling in Tree Matters (2014) by Gangu Bai.” South Asian Review 0, no. 0 (August 23, 2022): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2022.2111505.

Ghosh, Ujaan. “The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 0, no. 0 (August 17, 2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2090738.

Chanda, Anurima. Timelines from Indian History: From Ancient Civilizations to a Modern Democracy. Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated, 2022.

Mukherjee, Utsa. “‘Only so That My Daughter Gets Exposure to the Culture’: Ethnic Leisure Practices and Intangible Cultural Heritage in British Indian Diasporic Families.” Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure 0, no. 0 (January 31, 2022): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2021.1999089.

Bose, Titas. “শিশুসাহিত্যিক জসীমউদ্দীন – Abasar.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://abasar.net/jasimuddin/?sshankha=winter_22.

Singh, Shikha. “The Politics of Aesthetics of Tara Books’ The London Jungle Book by Bhajju Shyam.” International Research in Children’s Literature 15, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 66–78. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2022.0431.

Stephens, John. “Children as Filmmakers: Well-Being, Social Ecology, and Cognitive Mapping in Delhi at Eleven.” International Research in Children’s Literature 15, no. 1 (February 2022): 79–92. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2022.0432.

“Lakhani – 2021 – Innocence Lost Childhood Studies and Reconstructi.Pdf.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n2/IN02.pdf.

“A Critical Review of Monthly ‘Anokhi Kahaniyan’ | Tasdiqتصدیق۔.” Accessed February 13, 2022. http://tasdeeq.riphahfsd.edu.pk/index.php/tasdeeq/article/view/66.

Mishra, Samina. “Process Talk: Samina Mishra on Being an Ally to Children.” Uma Krishnaswami. Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process-talk-samina-mishra-on-creative-practice.

Raman, Menaka. “Adulting with YA Books – The Hindu.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.thehindu.com/books/adulting-with-ya-books/article38183747.ece.

———. “‘As a Society We Are a Happy Flock of Ostriches Who Love to Bury Their Heads in the Sand,’ Tanushree Singh.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://menaka.stck.me/post/15276/As-a-society-we-are-a-happy-flock-of-ostriches-who-love-to-bury-their-heads-in-the-sand-Tanushree-Singh?fbclid=IwAR1q2hITv511tlHxQbip09lm3aFJFjqEAE9wXJfV8zjbL6yI_smpwR7rVCc.

———. “Since Our Aim Was to Capture an Indian Growing up Experience, We Felt Our First Responsibility Was towards Our Readers.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://menaka.stck.me/post/15109/Since-our-aim-was-to-capture-an-Indian-growing-up-experience-we-felt-our-first-responsibility-was-towards-our-readers?fbclid=IwAR3l9PRTBJdMVzxYQ0IapHqnEsdOuyHPAFoZynqaxkgKeUMnZPjmpzyVVhc.

Roy, Ritwika. “The Presence of Silence: Quietness and Agency in Contemporary Indian Children’s Fiction.” CCYSC. Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.theccysc.com/post/the-presence-of-silence-quietness-and-agency-in-contemporary-indian-children-s-fiction.

———. ““The secret is that the secret changes”: Sex and Taboo in India and Indian Young Adult Fiction”. International Journal for Young Adult Fiction, 3.1, (November 2022): pp 1–21. http://doi.org/10.24877/IJYAL.84

2021

Biswas, Stella Chitralekha. “A Revolution in Print: Multimodality in Bengali Children’s Literature and Its Challenges.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 59, no. 1 (2021): 41–51. https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2021.0003.

Bose, Titas. “Reading in Translation: The Soviet Picture Book in an Era beyond Its Time.” WordPress.com. WorldKidLit (blog), September 19, 2021. https://worldkidlit.wordpress.com/2021/09/19/bengali/.

Bose, Titas. Review of The Girl in the Text, by Ann Smith(ed), Children and Society, 16 Sep. 2021. Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12503.

Chahinez, EZZINE. “Lost between Uncanniness and Trauma: The Psychological Journey of Afghan Children into the Unknown in Deborah Ellis’ The Breadwinner.” Text. https://aleph-alger2.edinum.org:443. Jamel Zenati, September 4, 2021. https://aleph-alger2.edinum.org/4480.

Chanda, Anurima. “Who Eats Whom?: Transcending the Real Purpose Behind Food Events in Children’s Literature (If Any!) Through Nonsense Literature.” In Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation, edited by Simi Malhotra, Kanika Sharma, and Sakshi Dogra, 31–41. Singapore: Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5254-0_4.

Hamthoon, PM. “Perceptions of Children’s Literature in the Writings of Sheikh Abi Al-Hassan Ali Al-Nadwi:” Al Hikmah International Journal of Islamic Studies and Human Sciences 4 (August 31, 2021): 144–65. https://doi.org/10.46722/hkmh.4.3.21h.

Kannan, Divya. “‘Children’s Work for Children’: Caste, Childhood, and Missionary Philanthropy in Colonial India.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 14, no. 2 (2021): 234–53. https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2021.0021.

Lakhani, Parth. “Innocence Lost: Childhood Studies and Reconstructing the Child in Paro Anand’s No Guns at My Son’s Funeral”The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Volume 12 , Issue 2 (April, 2021): 9-24.

Laskar, Rizia Begum. “‘Never Just a Game’: Storytelling, Gaming, and Death in Luka and the Fire of Life and Joseph Anton.” International Research in Children’s Literature 14, no. 3 (October 2021): 330–40. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0414.

Bee Formentelli, “Rabindranath Tagore’s Shey as a Playful Encounter Between a Poet and His Granddaughter.” In Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (ed.), Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 95-113. 100-101.

Roy, Ritwika. “MENTAL HEALTH, SEXUALITY, AND SOCIAL CULPABILITY IN THE YA NOVELS OF HIMANJALI SANKAR.” Let’s Talk About Sex, May 25, 2021. https://www.letstalkaboutsexinya.co.uk/post/mental-health-sexuality-and-social-culpability-in-the-ya-novels-of-himanjali-sankar.

Sengupta, Tiyasha. “Heroes and Villains: Multimodal Identity Construction in Children’s Wartime Visual Narratives.” Multimodal Communication 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 265–88. https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2021-0011.

Sharma, Dr. Karuna. “CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD IN CHILDREN’S CINEMA IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR HINDI FILMS .” International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research 6, no. 3 (March 30, 2021): 856–70. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i03.008.

Tehseem, Tazanfal, Naima Tassadiq, Rabia Faiz, and Lala Rukh. “I Am What I Am: Exploring the Identity Construal in Pakistani School EFL Textbooks.” Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences 4, no. 3 (September 22, 2021): 679–91. https://doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v4i3.174.

Pirzada, Tehmina. “Boundary Crossings and Social Justice in A Girl Called Genghis Khan.” Bookbird 59, no. 3 (2021): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/10.1353/bkb.2021.0040.

2020

Dandapat, Sridipa, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Representation of the Adivasis: An Intersectional Study of Gender through Select Indian Picture Books in English.” New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship 26, no. 1–2 (July 2, 2020): 38–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2021.1972750.

Dasgupta, Sreemoyee. “A “Moderately” Bengali Alice: Tracing Moderate Nationalism in Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay’s Kankabati.” Children’s Literature, vol. 48, 2020, p. 1-31. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2020.0001.

Ghalian, Sonia. “In the Shadows: Tracing Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema.” In Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age, 141–56. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2631-2_7.

Hailowng, Pow Aim. “Children’s Literature of the Tai Phake Community,” n.d., 25. Zubaan Grant Papers (2020). https://zubaanprojects.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SPF-2019-Grant-Papers_Pow-Aim-Hailowng_Childrens-Literature-Of-The-Tai-Phake-Community-Of-Assam.pdf

Bose, Titas. ‘“I Can’t Tell You Just Now What the Moral of That is’: Alice in Wonderland and a History of Children’s Literature”. In Anurima Chanda eds, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Worldview Critical Editions, Worldview Publications, 2020, pp. 109–123.

“Menon – Children’s Literature of the Tai Phake Community.Pdf.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://zubaanprojects.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SPF-2019-Grant-Papers_Pow-Aim-Hailowng_Childrens-Literature-Of-The-Tai-Phake-Community-Of-Assam.pdf.

Access Suchismita Banerjee’s article, shared with the author’s permission

Banerjee, Suchismita. “Contemporary Children’s Literature in India: New Trajectories”. Journal of Children’s Literature 2.2, 2008: 6–25. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17XW2oYrYFg4I_T1Qkrai8qUovibS5ds7/view?usp=sharing