Contributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew
McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy
Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer
Fritz, Andrew Trevarrow, and Richardine Woodall Home. School.
Nature. The spaces children occupy, both physically and
imaginatively, are never neutral. Instead, they carry social,
cultural, and political histories that impose-or attempt to
impose-behavioral expectations. Moreover, the spaces identified
with childhood reflect and reveal adult expectations of where
children "belong." The essays in Containing Childhood: Space and
Identity in Children's Literature explore the multifaceted and
dynamic nature of space, as well as the relationship between space
and identity in children's literature. Contributors to the volume
address such questions as: What is the nature of that relationship?
What happens to the spaces associated with childhood over time? How
do children conceptualize and lay claim to their own spaces? The
book features essays on popular and lesser-known children's fiction
from North America and Great Britain, including works like The Hate
U Give, His Dark Materials, The Giver quartet, and Shadowshaper.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach in their analysis,
contributors draw upon varied scholarly areas such as philosophy,
race, class, and gender studies, among others. Without reducing the
issues to any singular theory or perspective, each piece provides
insight into specific treatments of space in specific periods of
time, thereby affording scholars a greater appreciation of the
diverse spatial patterns in children's literature.
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