Literary cultures and Twentieth-Century childhoods / Rachel Conrad, L. Brown Kennedy, editors.
Conrad, Rachel.; Kennedy, L. Brown.
2020
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Title Literary cultures and Twentieth-Century childhoods / Rachel Conrad, L. Brown Kennedy, editors.
ISBN 9783030353926 (electronic book)
3030353923 (electronic book)
3030353915
9783030353919
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35392-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-35392-6 doi
10.1007/978-3-030-35
Call Number PN1009.A1
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.89282
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 Looking at classic texts for young audiences and at less widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including poetry, fi ction, historical fi ction and biography, picturebooks, and childrens television), essays foreground the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.
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Kennedy, L. Brown.
Series Literary cultures and childhoods.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods
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Part I: Framing the Twentieth Century: Spectacle, Self, and Specularity
Chapter 2: Spectacle and Parody: Burlesque Subjectivity in the American Picturebook
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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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Chapter 4: A Subjunctive Imagining: June Jordan's Who Look at Me and the Conditions of Black Agency
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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
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Chapter 6: New Spaces and New Childhoods: Challenging Assumptions of Normative Childhood in Modernist Children's Literature
Resituating Childhood 'Innocence'

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
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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
"Tomansín's Company": A Colonial Version of Modern Boyhood
Conclusion
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Chapter 8: Reading for Success: Booker T. Washington's Pursuit of Education in Two Children's Books
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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

The American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers
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Chapter 10: Yoshiko Uchida: Loss, Displacement, and Identity
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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
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Part IV: Children as Culture-Makers: Young People, Agency, and Literary Cultures

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