The article examines the ecological and aesthetic dimensions of trash in Barbro Lindgren's children's books Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang (1969) and Loranga, Loranga (1970). It investigates how Lindgren develops a waste aesthetics by inscribing the child, the play, and the children's book in a contemporary environmental critique of waste disposal. I argue that her aesthetics differs from the established image of political children's literature around 1968. The article contributes to the growing field of waste studies, a research area intertwined with material ecocriticism and modernity studies. Stories that connect waste with play and fantasy have the ability to work as counter-narratives and bridge the gulf between human culture and non-human nature. In a traditional environmental discourse nature is configured as a passive victim of exploitation and contamination. These kinds of narratives are performative in their disenchantment of the human-nature relationship, and perpetuate alienation and disinterest. Lindgren's waste aesthetics, on the other hand, encourages a productive relationship to trash and Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang and Loranga, Loranga are examples of counter-narratives.

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This article argues that emotions are utilized for norm breaking, identity formation, and socialization in S.E. Hinton’s YA novel The Outsiders (1967). Drawing on the history of emotions studies, it investigates how emotional expressions are utilized to negotiate and contest given emotional norms on the one hand, and Young Adult literary conventions on the other. The point of departure is intersectional and focuses on the relationship between emotion, power, and socialization. In particular, the article considers how intersections of age, gender, and class relate to depictions of feeling and establishing of new emotional norms. The article shows that the feelings that the main character Pony expresses are part of a reiterative process of negotiation of power; they work as instruments for changing emotional norms connected to his age, class, and gender.

IANTROPOCAENE UDFORDRINGER narrativer og billeder, som eksempelvis benyttes i børne-og ungdomslitteratur, når det kommer til at fremstille børn, unge, natur og miljøkriser.Hvorvidt den antropocaene tidsalder er entydigt god eller dårlig, når konsekvenserne heraf taenkes ind i en kulturel kontekst, er svaert at afgøre. Det, man kan sige med nogenlunde sikkerhed, er, at Antropocaen udfordrer illustratorer, forfattere, forlag og forskere, som beskaeftiger sig med børne-og ungdomslitteratur. Det er nogle af disse udfordringer, denne artikel adresserer og udfolder. Dette ved at stille en raekke spørgsmål, som artiklen ikke selv svarer på, men som forhåbentligt skaber rum for refleksion og samtale.