Editors’ Introduction: Queer Futurities in Youth Literature, Media, and Culture

Beauvais, Clémentine. The Mighty Child: Time and Power in Children’s Literature. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke UP, 2004.

Halberstam, Jack (published as Halberstam, Judith). In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York UP, 2005. Jenkins, Christine A. and Michael Cart. Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature: LGBTQ+ Content since 1989. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Kidd, Kenneth. “Queer Theory’s Child and Children’s Literature Studies.” PMLA, vol. 126, No. 1, 2011, pp. 182-188.

Levithan, David. Two Boys Kissing. Ember, 2013.

Mason, Derritt. “On Children’s Literature and the (Im)Possibility of It Gets Better.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, vol. 38, nos. 3–4, 2012, pp. 83–104.

Matos, Angel Daniel. “A Narrative of a Future Past: Historical Authenticity, Ethics, and Queer Latinx Futurity in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.” Children’s Literature, vol. 47, 2019, pp. 30-56.

Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York UP, 2009.

Reynolds, Kimberly. Radical Children’s Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Duke UP, 2003.

Stockton, Kathryn Bond. The Queer Child; or, Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Duke UP, 2009.

Warner, Michael. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life. Harvard UP, 1999.

Whitehead, Joshua. Jonny Appleseed. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.