13939 (Re)thinking the borders in children's nonfiction- (Ανα) προσδιορίζοντας τα όρια αλήθειας και φαντασίας στο παιδικό βιβλίο γνώσεων
Despite this, the genre of nonfiction books has not received the same amount of scholarly attention as pure fictional books within the field of children’s literature. This is not to say that there is an obvious gap in the study, since some recent publications on the topic have started to emerge. These new studies have addressed the critical potential (Sanders, 2018) and the aesthetic qualities of nonfiction (Grilli, 2020), verbal and visual strategies (Goga et al., 2021), hybridization of nonfiction (von Merveldt, 2018; Αγγελάκη, 2023), particular genres (Rybak, 2022), as well as the new special issue of Bookbird on nonfiction (edited by Aronson & Malilang, 2024). These works are merely the beginning of setting new directions in the study of nonfiction.
Thus, we invite you to expand this emerging network of knowledge in the upcoming conference that touches on the issue of (re)thinking the borders in children’s nonfiction. Specifically, we invite papers related to the conference’s overall theme. Possible areas for investigation include but are not restricted to:
1. Negotiation of boundaries between fiction and nonfiction
2. Borders of theory – new methodological approaches
3. Representations of nonfiction children’s literature in works on the history of children’s literature
4. Nonfiction epitexts (such as reviews in journals and magazines)
5. Nonfiction peritexts (such as prefaces and afterwords)
6. Nonfiction goes international (awards, bookfairs, festivals)
7. Censorship or cultural adjustment in the translation of nonfiction for children
8. Space and memory within nonfiction – museums, galleries, and historical sites
9. Nonfiction books between art and economy
10. The role of the visual code in nonfiction (aesthetics, pictorial turn, etc.)
11. Authoriality in nonfiction
12. The role of the intended reader in nonfiction
13. Practising research on nonfiction
14. Nonfiction and creative writing