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“GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!”: The High Stakes Dark Sides Children’s Literature & of JUNE 18-20, 2015 OMNI RICHMOND HOTEL, RICHMOND, VA "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!”: The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children’s Literature This year’s conference, themed “Give me liberty, or give me death!”: The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children’s Literature, will examine the many ways in The Children’s which authors, artists, publishers, and scholars Literature Association of contemporary children’s and young adult WELCOME literature and culture are addressing the not-so-cute, not-so-safe, but oh-so-intriguing Longwood University aspect of children’s and young adult literature - Tand culture. This year, papers will explore the & darker sides of children’s stories—stories of death, ghosts, hauntings, monsters—and the Welcome you to the more liberating sides as well. Set in historic Richmond, where America’s 42nd Annual most troubled past meets some of its greatest Children’s Literature future ambitions, this conference explores how Association Conference stories for young readers offer promise and hope while tackling what waits in the shadows. As always, the conference features papers from across disciplinary boundaries and theoretical perspectives, historical periods and genre interests, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the conversation to which we all gladly contribute. We welcome old friends, new colleagues, mentors, students, and members, both international and local, who are here to celebrate the vitality of children’s literature. The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 3 SPECIAL OFFICERS THANKS BOARD & MAJOR- SPONSORS: - CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR: University of Richmond OFFICERS: Kara Keeling, CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY, PRESIDENT CONFERENCE PLANNING CHAIR: Annette Wannamaker, UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN MICHIGAN, VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT Claudia Mills, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, PAST PRESIDENT Jennifer M. Miskec Jennifer M. Miskec, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY, SECRETARY 2015 CONFERENCE Jackie Stallcup, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-NORTHRIDGE, TREASURER PLANNING COMMITTEE: BOARD MEMBERS: Rhonda Brock-Servais Chris McGee Karen Coats, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, 2012-2015 Brooke Vaughan Michael Joseph, RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, 2012-2015 Amanda Thompson Margaret Mackey, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, 2012-2015 Joel Chaston, MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013-2016 2015 CONFERENCE PAPER June Cummins, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013-2016 SELECTION COMMITTEE: Christine Doyle, CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013-2016 Rhonda Brock-Servais Kenneth Kidd, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 2014-2017 Chris McGee Philip Nel, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 2014-2017 Claudia Mills Sara L. Schwebel, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 2014-2017 Jennifer M. Miskec Roberta Seelinger Trites INCOMING OFFICERS: Kenneth Kidd, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT Roberta Seelinger Trites, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, TREASURER Special thanks from the conference organizing team to all who made this conference possible: Kristi Olson, ChLA MANAGER INCOMING BOARD MEMBERS: Wade Edwards, CHAIR, EML, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Marah Gubar, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2015-2018 Lisa Seamster, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, EML, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Joe Sutliff Sanders, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 2015-2018 Ken Perkins, PROVOST, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Gwen A. Tarbox, WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, 2015-2018 Jeannine Perry, DEAN, COLLEGE OF GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Eric Tribunella, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, 2015-2018 Elisabeth Gruner, ASSOCIATE DEAN, SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND 4 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 5 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AT-A-GLANCE - - THURSDAY, JUNE 18 PHOENIX 7:30-5:00 Registration and Bookstore Open, Omni Richmond Hotel AWARD RECIPIENT 9:00-10:15 Concurrent Sessions #1 Kyoko Mori will receive the Phoenix Award for One Bird (1995), the story 10:30-11:45 Concurrent Sessions #2 of fifteen-year-old Megumi’s self-discovery after her mother leaves her 11:45-1:30 Lunch on your own 1:30-2:45 Concurrent Sessions #3 with her philandering and mostly absent father and cranky grandmother. 3:00-4:15 Concurrent Sessions #4 In addition to One Bird, Mori is the author of novels, essays, short stories, 5:30-7:00 Welcome Reception and a memoir: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home. Mori is a Professor of 7:00 Dinner on your own Creative Writing at George Mason University. FRIDAY, JUNE 19 FRANCELIA BUTLER 8:00-5:00 Registration and Bookstore Open 8:00-9:15 Concurrent Sessions #5 LECTURE 9:30-10:45 Concurrent Sessions #6 Cinderella's Stepsisters, Traumatic Memory, and Young People's Writing 11:00-12:15 Concurrent Sessions #7 Dr. Adrienne Kertzer, Professor of English at the University of Calgary 12:15-1:30 Lunch on your own or Genre-Themed Group Lunch (pre-registration required) and past president of ChLA, will deliver the Francelia Butler Lecture. Her 1:30-2:45 Concurrent Sessions #8 book My Mother’s Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust won the 3:00-4:15 Concurrent Sessions #9 Canadian Jewish Book Award and ChLA’s Honor Book Award. In addition 4:30-5:45 Concurrent Sessions #10 6:30 Bus transportation from the Omni Richmond Hotel to the University of Richmond to further work on Holocaust representation, she is currently engaged in a 7:00 Phoenix Reception at University of Richmond (pre-registration required) or Dinner on your own study of memory and trauma in young adult literature. SATURDAY, JUNE 20 8:30-11:00 Registration and Bookstore Open 8:30-9:30 Francelia Butler Lecture, Adrienne Kertzer, Ph.D. PURCHASING BOOKS 9:45-11:00 Concurrent Sessions #11 AT THE CONFERENCE 11:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions #12 12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own or Career-Themed Group Lunch (pre-registration required) THE SCHOLAR’S CHOICE will be on site at the Omni Richmond Hotel 2:00-3:15 Membership Meeting (all members encouraged to attend) and will carry scholarly books in children’s literature and culture. 3:30-4:45 Concurrent Sessions #13 5:00-6:15 Concurrent Sessions #14 6:30-7:00 Reception HOURS: 7:00-9:00 Awards Banquet Thursday 7:30-5:00 9:00- The Tobacco Company Club – 1201 E. Cary Street (directly across from hotel) Friday 8:00-6:00 (attendees are invited for an informal get together following the banquet) Saturday 8:00-11:30 6 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 7 SESSION 1 1C. We Are Family 9:00-10:15 A.M. POTOMAC E CHAIR: KATY LEWIS, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY 1A. The Gothic JENN COLETTA, JAMES RIVER A Hollins University CHAIR: REBECCA WIGGINTON, “John Green Tramples Tropes: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Examining Functional Parents’ Roles in Resolving Trauma in The Fault ALYCE BAKER, in Our Stars, Paper Towns, and Will Lock Haven University of Grayson, Will Grayson” Pennsylvania “Gothic Sensibilities in Ransom Riggs’ Peculiar Children Series: ERIC PRESS, University of Virginia Where and Why?” “Reconfiguring the Family: Kindship in Dystopian Novels” KRISTA AHLBERG, Independent Scholar “Gothic Elements and the Power 1D. Revolutionary War of the Gothic Heroine in the Harry POTOMAC G Potter Series” SCHEDULE CHAIR: JESSICA STANLEY, LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY REBECCA WIGGINTON, University of Pittsburgh MARY COUZELIS, “‘People aren’t born good or Morgan State University IN DETAIL bad’: Religious Syncretism and “Uncanny Doubles: Two Christian Spiritual Freedom in Cassandra ‘Gothic’ Young Adult Novels” Clare’s The Mortal Instruments” TERESA MICHALS, - 1B. War and Trauma George Mason University “‘Useless to Himself and Others’: JAMES RIVER B Children’s Literature, War, and CHAIR: ANUJA MADAN, Disability” UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA KEVIN SHORTSLEEVE, ANUJA MADAN, Christopher Newport University University of Florida “Rebellion, Children’s Books, “Children’s War Trauma and the and the American Revolution: The Fissures in the Collective in When Cases of Isaiah Thomas and Francis the Emperor was Divine” Hopkinson” DAN HADE, Pennsylvania State University “Learning to Forget: Memory and Amnesia in American Children’s Books about War” ASHLEY O’DONNELL, Central Michigan University “The Affects of Trauma on Adolescent Relationships in Patrick Ness’s Monsters of Men” Illustration by Fabian Negrin THURSDAY THURSDAY 06.18.15 The 42nd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 18-20, 2015 9 1E. Imaginary Worlds SESSION 2 2C. Goodness 2E. Reading and Literacy JILL COSTE, 3B. Latin American San Diego State University Children’s Literature SHENANDOAH H 10:30-11:45 A.M. POTOMAC E SHENANDOAH H “Enchanting the Masses: Fairy CHAIR: TAMMY MIELKE, CHAIR: CAROLINE WEBB, CHAIR: NAOMI LESLEY, COASTAL Tale Dystopias and Allegorical JAMES RIVER B UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Diversity” Aftermath of the CHAIR: ANN GONZÁLEZ, UNIVERSITY 2A. AUSTRALIA OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE JOSHUA ANDERSON, Afterlife NAOMI LESLEY, MEGHAN GILBERT-HICKEY, University of California at Berkeley CAROLINE WEBB, Coastal Carolina Community MARÍA LAMARQUE, JAMES RIVER A St. John’s University “Margaret Wise Brown’s The University of Newcastle, College “White Mothers, Lost Fathers: Texas A&M University- Commerce Goodnight Moon: Possibility and CHAIR: CRISTINA RHODES, Australia “Tropes of Illiteracy: Desire and The Biological Lineage of YA “Carmen Boullosa’s Children and Pessimism in the Here and Now” TEXAS A&M- CORPUS CHRISTI “Oppression, Resistance, and Resistance in Young Adult Novels”
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    The Red Plenty Book Event — a round-table discussion of Francis Spufford’s novel, Red Plenty — ran on Crooked Timber from May 29 to June 14, 2012. online permalink: http://www.crookedtimber.org/categories/red_plenty_seminar The Book Event was organized by Henry Farrell. The book was edited by Henry Farrell and John Holbo, and designed by John Holbo. The Red Plenty Book Event is CC licensed: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. iii Contents Red Plenty is a Novel Kim Stanley Robinson 1 Red Plenty or Red Poverty? Reality versus ‘Psychoprophyilaxis’: Reflections on Spufford’s Vision of The Rise And The Decline of The Communist System Antoaneta Dimitrova 3 To market, to market … or not? George Scialabba 11 In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves Yo u Cosma Shalizi 21 On Narrating a System Carl Caldwell 47 Red Plenty – My Brush With Brezhnevism John Holbo 53 You Are Alone, In A Dark Wood. Now Cope. Henry Farrell 57 New Ideas From Dead Political Systems Daniel Davies 67 Worlds of Yesterday Felix Gilman 73 Good and Plenty Rich Yeselson 79 Will we ever know what otherwise is? Did we ever?Life, Fate and Irony Niamh Hardiman 85 Red Plenty:What WereThey Thinking? Maria Farrell 91 Red Plenty - or - Socialism Without Doctrines John Quiggin 97 Response Francis Spufford 101 Contributors 127 Red Plenty is a Novel Kim Stanley Robinson I loved Francis Spufford’sRed Plenty, which is a very beau- tiful novel. There seems to be some unnecessary confusion as to its form or genre. You can see that in the front matter of the American edition, in which it is described as “like no other history book,” “a collection of stories,” “faction,” “part detective story,” “a set of artfully interwoven genres,” “the least promis- ing fictional material of all time,” “reverse magical realism,” and “half novel/half history”.