“Not Entirely on His Side”: The Assumption of Sexed Subjectivity in Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” by Jennifer MURRAY

“…The enigma of sexual difference is the nodal point of Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” (1968). The Lacanian concept of sexuation, which defines the positions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ as belonging to discordant logical structures, will serve to illuminate the complex path of the unnamed female protagonist of this short story (and secondarily, of her younger brother) in coming to assume a position as a sexed subject. …”
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“The boy could not distinguish faces”: the world through the eyes of a child in F. Gorenstein’s story The House with a Turret by Oleg Lekmanov

“…From the beginning to the end of the story, the boy, the main character of the story, learns to distinguish good from evil and good people from bad. …”
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The Right Tone for the Hardest Moments: Louisa May Alcott’s New York Stories of Child Labor and Urban Benevolence in the Mid-1870s by Daniela Daniele

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Territoires méridionaux et îles australes : laboratoires du masculin dans les premiers romans d’aventures pour garçons victoriennes by Valentine Prévot

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Implementing Shoah-Themed Literature into Teaching with the Example of <i>The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story</i> by Milan Mašát

Subjects: “…<i>The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story</i>…”
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Design of the Boys Hostel at Kabale University. by Nuwagaba, Happiness

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ECG Changes in 8-Year-Old Boy with Pulmonary Edema after Head Injury by Bojko Bjelakovic, Vladislav Vukomanovic, Ljiljana Saranac, Ivan Stefanovic

“…This is a case story of an 8-year-old boy with no prior history of cardiac disease who developed acute pulmonary edema with ECG changes similar to transmural myocardial infarction after basilar skull fracture. …”
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L’autobiographie ou l’art de la vie dans A Small Boy and Others de Henry James by Thomas Constantinesco, Agnès Derail

“…For James then, writing his life as “a small boy” means ultimately telling the story of his being haunted by the “others” that his title hints at and whose inescapable presence around and within him contributes to making and unmaking his sense of self.…”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…Jerome Charyn recently published an autobiographical trilogy (The Dark Lady from Belorusse, 1997; The Black Swan, 2000 and Bronx Boy, 2007) in which the main focus, more than his adored and fascinating mother at the heart of the story, more than Charyn’s childhood and adolescence, is the Bronx. …”
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Of Human Bondage and the Question of Free Will by Mahinur Akşehir Uygur

“…Of Human Bondage (1915) by Somerset Maugham might be considered to be the story of a boy’s rite of passage, of a troubled love affair or to have a touch of Maugham’s own growth from boyhood to adulthood. …”
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Going Down Textual Lane: Ibadan in Text and Thoughts: A Review of Under the Brown Rusted Roofs by Abimbola Adunni Adelakun. Published by Kraftgriots, Ibadan, 2008, 252pp.1 by Kole Odutola

“…The other stereotype that comes to the mind of this Lagos boy is that Ibadan houses do not have street addresses but you can describe where you are going or looking for by Agboole Oloolu or Agboole Alabẹni (as in Bimbo Adelakun’s Novel). …”
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Le continent noir du désir masculin : Colet et Flaubert, encore by Barbara Vinken

“…The hope entertained by every reader of a happy love story has rarely been so disappointed. The studies on sexuality by Freud, one of the greatest skeptics on the subject of love, shed light on the vicissitudes of masculine desire. …”
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With Collies Graven on His Heart: The Canine Projections of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) by Peter Merchant

“…On a necessarily smaller scale, he then repeated the feat months later with his short story ‘The Black Poodle’. By writing in the novel about a boys’ school (though with a touch of magical mystery) and by centring the story on a dog (though with a distinct sting in the tail), he demonstrated how well attuned he was to the taste of the times. …”
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Television advertising to young children by T. Cardwell-Gardner Cardwell-Gardner, J.A. Bennett

“…The findings suggest inter alia that separate messages must be formulated for boys and girls, that messages must contain a cleverly told story, and that the message must be relevant to them …”
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The Exordium of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Poetry by Adedotun Ogundeji

“…The narratives tell interesting stories, some of which are adapted from the Ifá corpus and other stories collected from his father, co-hunters and other sources. …”
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Within Satisfaction and Distress: Characterizing the First Cultural Transition of Young Talented Cameroonian Footballers by Boris Tachom Waffo, Denis Hauw

“…S., Henriksen, K., Küttel, A., & Larsen, C. H. (2022). Every boy’s dream: A mixed method study of young professional Danish football players’ transnational migration. …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…(1978), a contemporary satire on a corrupt big man; and Kólá Akínlàdé, prolific author of well-crafted detective stories such as Ta ló pa Ọmọ Ọba? (Who Killed the Prince’s Child?). …”
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“What a Handsome Family We Are!”: Feral Children and Kin-Making in Abbie Farwell Brown’s The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) by Julia Helena Wilde

“…The book includes two short stories about feral children who grow up to become saints (“Saint Keneth of the Gulls” and “The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe”). …”
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“Your Womb is Our Enemy!” by Muauz Gidey Alemu, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe

“…It narrates the scale, nature, and intentions of the sexual violence perpetrated on Tigrayan women, girls, men and boys. It showcases the extreme cruelty, dehumanization and intent to sterilize and inflict maximum damage from stories of victims and witnesses. …”
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