How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People by Wannamaker, Annette
How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People by Wannamaker, Annette

How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People

On the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism Children's author Philip Pullman famously...
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How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People by Wannamaker, Annette

How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People

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How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People by Wannamaker, Annette

How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People

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Author: Annette Wannamaker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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On the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism

Children's author Philip Pullman famously said that "There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book." While the recent rise of fascist ideology in the United States might seem a subject too large and adult to be dealt with in literature for children or teens, Annette Wannamaker proposes in How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist that there are books aimed at future generations which critique and counter fascist propaganda and mythmaking.

Works of literature can reflect fascist ideology and promote it as well, but Wannamaker proposes that some books also offer tools for understanding it. Books written for beginners can introduce readers to complex concepts, break big ideas into manageable parts, and teach readers how to read the world outside of the book. Antifascist books are ones that analyze fascistic rhetoric and storytelling, educate about America's long history of authoritarianism, and highlight various facets of fascism such as scapegoating others and reasserting patriarchal power.

From "The Emperor's New Clothes" and the tales of Superman to Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the 1619 Project and contemporary works such as All Boys Aren't Blue and Donald Builds the Wall, Wannamaker shows how the ethos of authoritarianism is characterized by a strict hierarchy that places children at its very bottom. In doing so, she argues convincingly that books written for young people can provide a particular view from the bottom, a perspective well-suited to interrogating systems of power.

Author: Annette Wannamaker
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 06/03/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781531509804


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Foreword 06/22/2025

About the Author
Annette Wannamaker is Professor of Children's Literature in the Department of English at Eastern Michigan University. She has served as North American Editor-in- Chief of Children's Literature in Education and as President of the Children's Literature Association. She is the author of Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child.
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