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1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages) |
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Literary cultures and childhoods |
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Literary cultures and childhoods.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods -- Works Cited -- Part I: Framing the Twentieth Century: Spectacle, Self, and Specularity -- Chapter 2: Spectacle and Parody: Burlesque Subjectivity in the American Picturebook -- Works Cited -- Picturebooks -- Criticism and Contexts -- Chapter 3: The Self in Twentieth-Century American Children's Literature: A Tale of Two Schemas -- The Interpersonal Self in Children's Texts -- The Triumph of the Isolated Self -- Conclusion: A Swinging Pendulum? |
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Works Cited -- Chapter 4: A Subjunctive Imagining: June Jordan's Who Look at Me and the Conditions of Black Agency -- Works Cited -- Part II: Representations of Childhoods: Questioning or Re-Imposing Received Tropes -- Chapter 5: Seeing Red: The Inside Nature of the Queer Outsider in Anne of Green Gables and The Well of Loneliness -- Inside Out: Nature and Nerve -- Outside In: Representative Women -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: New Spaces and New Childhoods: Challenging Assumptions of Normative Childhood in Modernist Children's Literature -- Resituating Childhood 'Innocence' |
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Children's Literature and/or Modernism? Issues of Classification -- "They had freed themselves, fighting": Postcolonial Childhood in Popo and Fifina -- The World is Round: A Queer Phenomenology of Girlhood -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Modern Family, Modern Colonial Childhoods: Representations of Childhood and the US Military in Colonial School Literature -- "Good Will": Revising History -- "Luisa's Gift": A Colonial Version of Modern Girlhood -- "TomansÃn's Company": A Colonial Version of Modern Boyhood -- Conclusion -- Works Cited |
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Chapter 8: Reading for Success: Booker T. Washington's Pursuit of Education in Two Children's Books -- Works Cited -- Part III: Identity and Displacement: Narrating History and Culture -- Chapter 9: "I remember. Oh, I remember": Traumatic Memory, Agency, and the American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers -- Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic: Three Ways of Looking at Traumatic Memory -- Erasing Holocaust Survivors' Traumatic Memories in the Film Adaptation of The Devil's Arithmetic -- The Location of Traumatic Memory in If I Should Die Before I Wake |
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The American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Yoshiko Uchida: Loss, Displacement, and Identity -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: "I Would Not Be a Pilgrim": Examining the Construction of the Muslim Child as an Authentic Witness and a Dynamic Subject in Anita Desai's The Peacock Garden -- Zuni as an Authentic Witness -- Desai's Narrator and the Creation of Zuni as a Dynamic Subject -- The Ethics of Storytelling in The Peacock Garden -- Works Cited -- Part IV: Children as Culture-Makers: Young People, Agency, and Literary Cultures |
| Summary |
"Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods is a timely intervention into childrens literature and childhood studies, bringing together robust readings of a range of texts within the context of recent developments in theoretical approaches. The collection includes essays by a number of notable scholars in the field as well as newer voices. The collection will be of use for a wide range of scholars: the question of how childhood is constructed and how scholars can account for the range of childhood experiences is a central one for both disciplines."--Lucy Pearson, Senior Lecturer in Childrens Literature at Newcastle University, UK and the author of The Making of Modern Childrens Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970 (Ashgate, 2013) Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century. In two acts of re-centering, the volume focuses both on the multiplicity of childhoods and literary cultures and on child agency. Looking at classic texts for young audiences and at less widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including poetry, fi ction, historical fi ction and biography, picturebooks, and childrens television), essays foreground the representation of child voices and subjectivities within texts, explore challenges to received notions of childhood, and emphasize the role of child-oriented texts in larger cultural and political projects. Chapters frame themes of self and specularity across the twentieth-century; question tropes of childhood; explore issues of identity and displacement in narratives of history and culture; and elevate children as makers of literary culture. The volume approaches literary culture not as solely produced by adults for consumption by children but as also co-created by young people throug h their actions as speakers, artists, readers, and writers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century
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Children's literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Conrad, Rachel.
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Kennedy, L. Brown
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| ISBN |
9783030353926 |
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3030353923 |
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