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Manderstedt, Lena; Palo, Annbritt; Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
This article highlights cultural appropriation in the literary representation of the Sámi (the indigenous people of the European Arctic) in two Swedish YA series: the "Soppero" quartet by the Sámi author Ann-Helén Laestadius, and the "Idijärvi" trilogy by Charlotte Cederlund, a non-Sámi writer. Despite their different origins,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Adolescent Literature, Foreign Countries, Authors
Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2019
This paper draws on two forms of cognitive studies to examine how a minority language literature cultivates feelings of in-group belonging. The minority in focus are the Tornedalingar: Swedish nationals who live near the Torne River which marks the border with Finland. The official language of the Tornedalingar is "Meänkieli" which…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Childrens Literature, Official Languages, Cultural Influences
Fjällström, Eva; Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2015
Resisting the will to empathise with a focalised character is assumed to be difficult for young readers, yet empirical evidence on how they actually respond is limited. This paper combines recent insights gleaned from cognitive literary studies with a small-scale empirical study of thirty-five Swedish adolescents reading an Irish short story in…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Fiction
Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2011
Melvin Burgess has gained a reputation as an "enfant terrible," whose writing tackles topics and presents attitudes which are controversial in literature for adolescents. Kimberley Reynolds cites him as an author whose work demonstrates that "writing about sex, sexuality and relationships between the sexes [is] one of the most radically changed…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Sexuality, Novels, Adolescents
Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2011
It is presumed that readers of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" enjoy the sexual tension between Bella and Edward; a tension that remains unresolved until the couple are married. This very traditional solution to the couple's carnal desires is just one of many ways in which the novels adhere to the conventions of romance writing for young people.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Novels, Sexuality, Conflict