Children's Cultures after Childhood
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ISBN 9789027249593
Children’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from diverse disciplinary fields (literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, education, and childhood studies) offer a cross-section of empirical and theoretical approaches sharing an inspiration in the notion of “after childhoods”, proposed by Peter Kraftl, a children’s geographer, to conceptualize theoretical and methodological orientations in research on children’s lives and on past, present, and future childhoods. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to scholars working in children’s literature and culture studies, education, and childhood studies.
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 16] 2023. x, 220 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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List of figures and tables | pp. ix–x
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Chapter 1. Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s culturesJustyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González | pp. 1–17
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Cluster 1. New materialist readings of children’s cultural texts
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Chapter 2. Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid talesElisabeth Wesseling | pp. 20–34
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Chapter 3. Messy assemblages: Interplay of the organic and the inorganic in children’s toy storiesShubhneet Kaur Kharbanda | pp. 35–51
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Chapter 4. Exploring animality and childhood in stop-motion animation Prokofiev’s Peter & the WolfKerenza Ghosh | pp. 52–70
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Chapter 5. Childhood and its afterlives: Spectrality and haunting in children’s literatureStella Miriam Pryce | pp. 71–86
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Cluster 2. Relational approaches in empirical research on children’s cultures
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Chapter 6. Enacting the tween news viewer: Supernytt and its audienceLinn C. Lorgen and Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen | pp. 88–101
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Chapter 7. Dynamics of age and power in a children’s literature research assemblageLeander Duthoy | pp. 102–121
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Chapter 8. Research with children, weeds, and a book: An after-childhood perspectiveJustyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak | pp. 122–136
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Chapter 9. Fabric with feeling: Materiality, memory, and affect in Nina Sabnani’s Mukand and RiazNiveditha Subramaniam | pp. 137–150
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Cluster 3. After-children’s culture studies
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Chapter 10. Down the back of a chair: What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” offer conceptualizations of “the child” in the Anthropocene?Victoria de Rijke, Jayne Osgood and Laura-Rosa | pp. 152–170
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Chapter 11. Weird readings and little machines: Against reading engagementSoledad Véliz | pp. 171–184
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Chapter 12. Literature and culture studies in classrooms: From petrification to sparkDenise Newfield | pp. 185–200
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Afterword: New materialist insights for the text-based scholarKaren Coats | pp. 201–217
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Index | pp. 219–220
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSY: Children's literature studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT009000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature