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Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature - Where Children Rule (Paperback)
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Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature - Where Children Rule (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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This book explores representations of child autonomy and
self-governance in children's literature.The idea of child rule and
child realms is central to children's literature, and childhood is
frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as
aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a
sense all children's literature depends on the idea that children
are different, separate, and in command of their own imaginative
spaces and places. Although the idea of child rule is a persistent
theme in discussions of children's literature (or about children
and childhood) the metaphor itself has never been properly unpacked
with critical reference to examples from those many texts that are
contingent on the authority and/or power of children. Child
governance and autonomy can be seen as natural or perverse; it can
be displayed as a threat or as a promise. Accordingly, the "child
rule"-motif can be seen in Robinsonades and horror films, in
philosophical treatises and in series fiction. The representations
of self-ruling children are manifold and ambivalent, and range from
the idyllic to the nightmarish. Contributors to this volume visit a
range of texts in which children are, in various ways, empowered,
discussing whether childhood itself may be thought of as a
nationality, and what that may imply. This collection shows how
representations of child governance have been used for different
ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical reasons, and will appeal to
scholars of children's literature, childhood studies, and cultural
studies.
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