Wendy Donawa
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Table of contents

1 Introduction: More than Wheat and Snow
Curating our Narrative Culture 
A Word about Book Choice 
     Concerns for the Teacher: Censorship and Appropriation 
Structure and Layout of the Book 
Chapter Summaries 
      Chapter Two: Re/Presenting the Present: Contemporary Realism In Canadian Fiction. 
      Chapter Three: Historical Fiction: “Making and Remaking the Past” 
      Chapter Four: Speculative Fiction: Imagining the World Otherwise 
      Chapter Five: Visual Literacy, Dual Text, and the Expanded Eye 
      Chapter Six: Young Adult Literature in the Digital Age 
      Chapter Seven: “A Nation Taking Shape” 

2 Re/Presenting the Present: Contemporary Realism in Canadian Fiction 
A Recognizable Vision of the Human Condition 
      The Evolution of “Real” Youth Literature 
Context and Challenge in Social Realism: Friends, Fears, Families, Fitting In 
Tesserae in the Canadian Mosaic 
      Aboriginal Narratives 
      African-Canadian Narratives 
      Asian-Canadian Narratives 
      The Gender Spectrum 
      Capabilities Differing 
Curriculum and Pedagogy: The Why, What, and How of Canadian Literature in the Classroom 
     Why Narrative is Important 
      Canadian Content: The What of Canadian Fiction Pedagogy 
      The How: Teaching Canadian Fiction 
Case Studies 
      What Fear Makes Us Do 
      What Friendship Makes Possible 

3 Historical Fiction: “Making and Remaking the Past” 
Intersections: Historical Thinking and Literary Insight 
      Historical Thinking and Primary Evidence 
      Historical Fiction and Interpretive Insight 
      Expanding Perspectives: Theoretical Lenses 
“The Past is a Foreign Country” 
      Representing Canada in Fictional Overviews and Series 
      “A History of Bindings”: Pre-Contact, Exploration, and Early Settlement 
Personal and National Identity in the Nineteenth Century 
      The “Psycho-Geography” Emerges: American and British Cultural Templates 
      The Company Store: Unpacking “Heroic” Myths 
      Drawing Boundaries: From Colony to Nation 
Where Does “History” End? 
      Entering the Century, Entering the Country 
      World War I: War Literature and the YA Reader 
      Between the Wars 
      The World War II Decade 
      Reading Postwar Canada 
Teaching Historical Fiction 
Case Studies 
      Historical Thinking and Literary Insight in The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter 
      Historical Thinking and Literary Insight in the Canadian Section of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes 

4 Speculative Fiction: Imagining the World Otherwise 
 Speculative Genres: “Nailing Jelly to the Wall” 
     Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction 
     Speculative Genres and Canadian Identity 
Myth, Magic, and the Transcendent Imagination 
      Mythic Foundations 
      High Fantasy Influences and Perilous Realms 
      Hybrid Heroes 
      Intertextuality 
Historical Fantasy: Illuminating Our Collective and Individual Past 
Contemporary Speculation 
      Modern Fairy Tales 
      Urban Fantasy 
      Paranormal Powers 
      Things That Go Bump in the Night 
 Dystopian Warnings and New Cartographies of the Imaginary Future 
 Speculative Fiction Pedagogy: Educating the Imagination: Multiple Worlds, Imaginative Bridges 
 Case Studies 
      Archetype and Future-Vision in The Keeper of the Isis Light 
     Who is Rocking the Blue-Green Cradle? Studying Symbolism in Wake by Robert Sawyer 

5 Visual Literacy, Dual Texts, and the Expanded Eye 
 Picture Books: A Metacognitive View 
     Picture Books and the Older Reader: “Crossover” Appeal 
     Illustrated Genres: Text or Image as Carrier of Meaning? 
     Alphabets of Visual Literacy: Line and Colour, Style and Medium 
     Synthesis: Text, Metatext, Peritext 
 Graphica and the Canon: Adult Prohibition and Guilty Pleasures 
      Comic Book Ancestry and Edgy Issues 
     “Crossover” Maps of Place and Memory 
Pedagogy: In/Visible Reading, Expanding Vision 
      Visual Literacy and the Dual Text 
      Visual Learning and the Twenty-First Century Learner 
 Case Studies 
      The Dual Text and Sense of Place in Josepha 
      Loss and Imagination: Child’s Experience, Adult World 

6 The YA Reader in the Digital Age 
Literary Thinking and Digital “Continuous Partial Attention” 
      What Changes? What Abides? Finding Spaces of Thoughtful Attention 
      Literary Resources Online: Journals, Media, Organizations 
      More Online Resources: Author and Publisher Websites 
      The Electronic Style Migration: Digital Characteristics of YA Literature 
      Navigating Non-Linear Literature: Hypertext and Rhizomes 
Literature, Pedagogy, and Community in a Digital World 
      Engaging the Digital World: Enhancing the Reading Experience 
      Theoretical Frames for Digitally-Enhanced Pedagogy 
Media, Literature, and Implications for the Teacher 
      Changing Relations of Power 
      Instructional Scaffolding in the Digital Classroom 
      Implications for Evaluation 
Case Studies for a Digital Age 
      Cross-Country Bookshelf: National Bio-Literary Mapping Project (Age 12 and up) 
      Classroom Reads Canada (mid-late teens) 

7 Conclusion: “A Nation Taking Shape” 
      “Real People Wrote These Books!” 
      Beyond the Canon 
      National Myths and Literary Traditions 
      Canadian Fiction, Canadian Readers                          Photo: Leah Fowler

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