reinforced across historically constructed territories including the Global North and South, this issue sheds light on how (able)nationalism and transnationalism have constructed disabled girls using ableist ideologies that individualize and naturalize
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Nirmala Erevelles and Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Anastasia Todd
created the Miss You Can Do It pageant in order to “pass the dream onto someone else.” It is important to note the juxtaposition of the flag, a symbol of US nationalism, with Curran’s narrative of girlhood, overcoming what she describes as her challenge
Thebes Troutman as Traveling Tween
Revising the Family Story
Margaret Steffler
of family, community, and nation at the beginning of the twentieth century as opposed to Thebes, who dismantles beliefs in differentiated and identifiable families, communities, and nationalisms at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In
Barbara Roche Rico
. 1991 . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and the Spread of Nationalism . London : Verso . Bennet , Jessica . 2011 . “ What Makes Mean Girls Tick .” The Daily Beast , 11 October . Cabranes , José A . 1979 . Citizenship and the
Anastasia Todd
Nationalism in Crip Times .” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 4 ( 2 ): 163 – 178 . McRuer , Robert , and Merri Lisa Johnson . 2014 . “ Proliferating Cripistemologies: A Virtual Roundtable .” Journal of Cultural & Literary Disability
“Let Us Be Giants”
Masculinity Nostalgia and Military Edutainment in South Asian War Comics
Tehmina Pirzada
The Rise of Masculinity-Focused Comics in South Asia South Asian comics produced in the past 20 years have engaged with social justice, nationalism, environmental issues, and gender-based violence, receiving legitimacy by combining visual art
Changelings in Chicago
Southside Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
Courtney Cook
to this important time in Black history. Black girls were the raison d'etre for Black community calls for funding, reformation, empowerment, religion, and nationalism as they settled in Chicago. They were central to Black calls for equality from the
Christopher Pittard
on foreign criminals (inevitably named the Shadow Band) being defeated by detectives with a coherent sense of Britishness, and indeed the question of nationalism and identity runs throughout Andrew’s text. Yet Keen’s adventures continually rely on the
Where to from Here?
Emerging Conversations on Girls’ Literature and Girlhood
Dawn Sardella-Ayres and Ashley N. Reese
happens whether the heroines are tomboys ( Proehl 2018 ) or schoolgirls ( Carpan 2009 ). This trajectory underpins our understanding of the girl's bildungsroman . Girls’ Bildungsromane and Nationalism We also rely on Roberta Seelinger Trites
Amrita De
significant differences within Modi and Trump's style, both deploy highly charged emotional messaging rooted in discourses of hegemonic masculinity to win votes. Both resort to some variation of majoritarian nationalism that is at once simple, mostly directed