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- form y Does My Head Look Big in This? Australia : Swing Wing , 2019 10434130 2019 single work film/TV
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Included in the 2006 White Ravens Catalogue compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. International understanding.
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Indonesian, and contains references to Muslim culture and Arabic peoples.
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Young Adult Literature : From Romance to Realism
United States of America (USA)
:
American Library Association
,
2016
18087037
2016
multi chapter work
criticism
'Cart's authoritative survey is already a go-to text for students of literary studies, teachers, and YA staff. In this new edition he gives it a thorough update to make it even more relevant and comprehensive. Surveying the landscape of YA lit both past and present, this book
- sketches in the origins of literature targeted at young adults;
- shows how the best of the genre has evolved to deal with subjects every bit as complex as its audience;
- closely examines teen demographics, literacy, audiobooks, the future of print, and other key topics;
- includes updated treatment of best-selling authors like John Green, Suzanne Collins, and Veronica Roth, plus interviews with leaders in the field;
- presents new and expanded coverage of perennially popular genre fiction, including horror, sci fi, and dystopian fiction;
- offers an updated overview of LGBTQ literature for young adults, including Intersex;
- covers such commercial trends as adult purchasers of YA books and the New Adult phenomenon; andfeatures abundant bibliographic material to aid in readers' advisory and collection development.
'Cart's up-to-date coverage makes this the perfect resource for YA librarians who want to sharpen their readers' advisory skills, educators and teachers who work with young people, and anyone else who wants to understand where YA lit has been and where it's heading.' (Publication summary)
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Minority Identity and Counter-Discourse: Indigenous Australian and Muslim-Australian Authors in The Young Adult Fiction Market
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 32 2015;'This article traces the increasing participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and Muslim-Australian authors in the Australian young-adult fiction market. Using bibliographical data drawn from the AustLit database, the article first outlines the general parameters of young-adult publishing in Australia since the 1990s, before specifically examining the works produced by Indigenous Australian and Muslim-Australian authors. These two groups share a significant characteristic: although they are often at the forefront of current Australian public discourse, they are more often the object of such speech than the speaking subject. This article examines the extent to which young-adult fiction provides a platform for these authors.'
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Challenging Stereotypes : Randa Abdel-Fattah's Use of Parody in Does My Head Look Big in This?
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 53 no. 2 2015; (p. 30-35) 'This article explores anti-Muslim stereotypes and strategies for combating them as presented in Randa Abdel-Fattah's first novel for young readers, Does My Head Look Big in This? First published in 2005, in the wake of terrorist attacks in the United States and Bali, the novel focuses on the everyday life of a second-generation Palestinian teenager who decides, as she puts it, to wear the hijab "full time" in a predominantly non-Muslim school in Australia. As will be argued here, stereotypes of Muslims and, in particular, Muslim women present not only challenges for the novel's central protagonist but also sites for her intervention. Central to this discussion is theoretical work by Judith Butler, whose notion of parody emphasizes the destabilizing effect that parody has for otherwise oppressive images and stereotypes. Rather than engage in a patient, rational, and didactic discussion with what are essentially impatient and irrational representations, Does My Head Look Big in This? adopts a strategy of parody-an exaggerated, often funny, redeployment of anti-Muslim stereotypes-in order to expose the ignorance wherein they originate. In this way, it will be argued, the protagonist of Abdel-Fattah's novel is not only "challenged" by anti-Muslim stereotypes, she "challenges back."' (Publication abstract) -
Books and Blogs : Promoting Reading Achievement in Digital Contexts
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Teenagers and Reading : Literary Heritages, Cultural Contexts and Contemporary Reading Practices 2012; (p. 191-209) -
Well-Received Muslim Tales Unveil Issues of Racism
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 - 13 March 2011; (p. 22)
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Young Adults
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 September 2005; (p. 6)
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It's a Veiled Subject
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 August 2005; (p. 1)
— Review of Does My Head Look Big in This? 2005 single work novel -
Challenges of Teenage Life
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 9 September Friday vol. 71 no. 51 2005; (p. 20)
— Review of Does My Head Look Big in This? 2005 single work novel -
Veiled Issues
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 275 2005; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Does My Head Look Big in This? 2005 single work novel ; Still Waving 2005 single work novel -
A Head Start in the School of Hard Knocks
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 November 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of The Last Anniversary 2005 single work novel ; Does My Head Look Big in This? 2005 single work novel -
Bigotry Stripped Bare
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2005; (p. 14) -
True Blue and Muslim Too
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 September 2005; (p. 3) -
Middle Eastern Appearance
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 September 2006; (p. 4-6) -
Multicultural Stepping Stones
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 1 no. 2 2006; (p. 10) Jodie Minus looks at the trajectory of Melina Marchetta's career from 'multicultural' to mainstream writer. Minus expresses the hope that Randa Abdel-Fattah will travel a similar path. 'We should look forward to the day', says Minus, 'when Abdel-Fattah no longer writes only about the problems facing Muslims, but about issues faced by all sorts of Australians'. -
'They Don't Know Us, What We Are' : An Analysis of Two Young Adult Texts with Arab-Western Protagonists
2006
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criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 16 no. 2 2006; (p. 51-57) This paper argues that since 9/11, the way Arabs are portrayed in Young Adult fiction has become focused on race and ethnic politics in ways that highlight various political agendas fundamentally concerned with 'ethnic loyalties'. Jo Lampert discusses two Young Adult novels, including Australian-born-Muslim, Rhanda Abdel Fattah's text, Does My Head Look Big in This?, by drawing upon postcolonial theories of border crossing and hybridity to look at how representations of Arab-Australian (and Arab-American) identities have shifted since the events of September 11th, 2001. The analysis looks specifically at young Arab-women and how they negotiate questions of identity, positioned as they are in between the 'us and them' dichotomy which underpins racist discourse. The novels discussed are seen to engage with the complexities of Arab-Muslim identity in Western texts by looking at positive ways to embrace mutliple, or hybrid identites.
Awards
- Melbourne, Victoria,