CALL FOR PAPERS 2/2024

2024-01-31

We live in a reality where the body is not only a topic of discussion but also a space of tension. The media message about corporeality is ambivalent. On the one hand, we are flooded with images of fit bodies, filtered faces of influencers, and advertisements featuring models showcasing their youth and attractiveness. On the other hand, a seemingly appreciated body remains a taboo subject. Although mass popular culture is becoming more and more inclusive, we are still reluctant to talk about diseases, disabilities, old age, or complicated relationships with the body - essentially, about all bodies that do not fit into the generally accepted canon of beauty. Social movements such as body positivity and body neutrality are striving to challenge the status quo. (more)

CALL FOR PAPERS 1/2024

2023-08-31

Childhood, adolescence, and technology – exploring the culture of/for Generation Z and Generation Alpha

In our upcoming issue, we would like to address the topic of the relationship between childhood (as well as adolescence) and new technologies in the context of culture of/for young recipients, concerning both the actual status quo and the cultural reconstructions of these relationships (movies, series, video games, music, visual arts, literature, fan fiction, etc.). Describing the so-called Generation Z, Agnieszka Całek argued that these are people born “already in times of widespread access to computers, the Internet, and mobile technologies. [This] generation is the first one that did not need to mechanically learn to use these advancements, but grew up and socialized in the environment of mobile phones, constant access to the network, and social media” (2021, p. 105). Representatives of Generation Z can therefore be described as “digital natives 2.0” (Kosacka, 2020, p. 51). Usually, by preschool age, they already have their first experience with modern technology (Kowaluk-Romanek, 2019, p. 194). The editor of the monograph Dziecko – media – rozwój. O konsekwencjach obecności mediów w życiu dziecka [Child ­– Media – Development: The Consequences of the Presence of the Media in a Child’s Life] even indicates the fact that “we usually register a child’s first contact with media in fetal life” (Bednarska, 2020, p. 9). (more)

CALL FOR PAPERS 2/2023

2023-01-10

The Magic of Childhood and Adolescence

In the next issue of the journal “Childhood: Literature and Culture,” we invite you to reflect on the motifs of magic, broadly understood, in various cultural texts: literary works, films, TV series, video games, theater performances, fine arts, etc. We are inspired by the academic conference “Abrakadraba! Magia w literaturze dziecięcej, młodzieżowej i fantastycznej” [Abracadabra! Magic in Children’s and YA Literature, Fantasy, and SF], organized in April 2022 by the Scholarly Circle of Fairy Tales, Children’s and Youth Literature, and Fantasy of the University of Warsaw and the Museum of Children’s Books – a special department of the Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of Mazovia Province, Poland. (more)

ICI Journals Master List 2021

2022-09-28

We are pleased to announce that „Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura” has been awarded 100 points as a result of the parametric evaluation and is included in the lCI Journals Master List 2021. We would also like to remind you that since 2021 our journal has been indexed in the ERIH+ database and is included in the list of journals scored by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science. We invite you to submit your texts!