Names, Naming, Diversity, and Identity in Youth Literature

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Recent years have seen a significant increase in works of fiction that champion and celebrate diversity and inclusion for young readers. At the same time, the world has witnessed a radical backlash against youth literature that positively explores issues of individual difference and group belonging. This multi-authored volume explores this growing tension and features chapters that critically examine how youth literature use names and naming to present child, adolescent, teen, and tween readers to the worlds ethnic, cultural, linguistic, neurological, religious, diversity. The contributors to this work represent themselves a kaleidoscope of cultural and linguistic backgrounds while sharing a common academic background in literature and onomastics.

Author Bio

Iman Nick is President of the Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics and Editor-in-Chief of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics.