Call for Papers Yearbook Exile Research 2023:
Exile in Children’s and Youth Media, ed. v. Bettina Bannasch, Burcu Dogramaci and Theresia Dingelmaier
In the adult literature of exile, especially in more recent texts, exile is often told and remembered from a child’s perspective. While these texts have been and continue to be carefully noted in research, the children’s and young adult literature of the exile has remained and remains remarkably poorly illuminated, with the exception of a few classics such as Judith Kerrs As Hitler the pink rabbit stole or Lisa Tetzners and Kurt Kläbers The children from #67. In contrast, there is a boom in research on current children’s and young adult literature dealing with themes such as flight and migration; the Society for Children and Young Adult Literature Research, for example, highlighted the topic in its 2017 yearbook.
Against the background of this research situation, the Exile Research Yearbook 2023 focuses on works that were created between 1933 and 1945 and/or describe exile experiences from this time. References and individual investigations as well as references to research on other – also international – exile experiences designed in book form, especially in the area of the current Migration-KJL or also little-noticed publications from the 19th century are expressly desired and should the previous narrow definition of the Open exile children’s and youth literature programmatically. The yearbook is dedicated to children’s and youth literature, but is open to ‘border crossers’ such as Irmgard Keuns The girl the children weren’t allowed to associate with. The corpus includes literary works for children and young people that have the Kindertransport as their theme.
In addition, the yearbook sees itself as an interdisciplinary forum, intended to collect contributions from literary studies, art history, education and related subjects. In the history of art, little research has been done on illustrated children’s and youth books or picture books. Walter Trier is one of the noted exiled illustrators for children’s and youth books (see the publications by Antje M. Warthorst). Hardly any research has been done on other artistic authors of the picture book, such as the photographer Ylla, who emigrated to Paris and New York.
The focus on media for children and young people is combined with the intention to focus more than usual on works addressed to children and young people, i.e. picture books and illustrated books, comics and graphic novels, as well as films and video installations. Didactic considerations should be taken into account in all contributions, but not significantly guide the considerations. Rather, the focus should be on analyzes of the narrative processes and aesthetics of the (picture) books/media. It is important to rediscover neglected or forgotten authors and works from a new perspective or to remember them again, such as the children’s book “Beatric and the Plane Tree” by the author Ilse Losa, who was exiled in Portugal, which was recently published at the suggestion of Irene Below and Barbara Daiber appeared for the first time in a German translation.
The aim of the yearbook is to draw attention to the research desideratum described in exile literary research, to give suggestions for further work and to present discoveries. The aim is also to build a bridge between adult and children’s literature and to show that existential basic experiences such as that of exile are perhaps particularly inviting to be told ‘simply’ in Lypp’s sense.
Please submit your abstracts (max. 1 DIN A4 page) with a short biography in one pdf until March 15, 2022 one.
The prepared contributions (up to max. 40,000 characters including spaces and bibliography) are requested by October 15, 2022.
Submissions should be addressed to the editors of the 2023 yearbook:
Prof. Bettina Bannasch ([email protected])
prof. Burcu Dogramaci ([email protected])
Dr. Theresia Dingelmaier ([email protected])
–
