Resumen de Transnational Influence of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice in the Production and Understanding of Children's and Young Adult Literature
This dissertation by compendium of articles consists of four core texts from various types of formal academic publications. Two main objectives of the articles assembled are to demonstrate how the various facets of specific realities concerning diversity, inclusion and social justice are influencing the production and understanding of Children¿s and Young Adult (YA) literature in the United States and how they hold transnational significance. The larger sociocultural constructions and sociohistorical norms addressed in the publications are implicated using three unifying themes. The three unifying themes that connect one another interrogate worldview representations, hypothesize about embedded ideological meaning and reach objectives by contextualizing works of Children¿s and YA literature (ChYAL) through different critical frames. New Historicism and Third Space are frequent theoretical frameworks that inform the critical analysis and methodologies that are also consistently engaged. A shared underlying premise of all the writings compiled in this dissertation is that there is a continued need to increase the variety and more extensively acknowledge the value of diverse narratives for and about less represented groups. There are significant gaps in the research and in the publishing industry. The research conducted about ChYAL from the United States speaks to issues of diversity, inclusion and social justice in different ways to fill in these transnational gaps. The themes centered in this dissertation by compendium of articles are achieved through archival sampling, book analisis and literature reviews.
