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Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play
in Children's Literature offers multifaceted reflection on
interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play
in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together
international children's literature scholars who each look at
children's texts as key vehicles of intergenerational play
reflecting ideologies of childhood and as objects with which
children and adults interact physically, emotionally, and
cognitively. Each chapter applies a distinct theoretical approach
to selected children's texts, including individual and social play,
constructive play, or play deprivation. This collection of essays
constitutes a timely voice in the current discussion about the
importance of children's play and adults' contribution to it
vis-a-vis the increasing limitations of opportunities for
children's playful time in contemporary societies.
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play
in Children's Literature offers multifaceted reflection on
interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play
in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together
international children's literature scholars who each look at
children's texts as key vehicles of intergenerational play
reflecting ideologies of childhood and as objects with which
children and adults interact physically, emotionally, and
cognitively. Each chapter applies a distinct theoretical approach
to selected children's texts, including individual and social play,
constructive play, or play deprivation. This collection of essays
constitutes a timely voice in the current discussion about the
importance of children's play and adults' contribution to it
vis-a-vis the increasing limitations of opportunities for
children's playful time in contemporary societies.
Children's Literature and Intergenerational Relationships:
Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children's
literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings
younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing
examples from diverse cultural and historical contexts, this
collection argues that children's texts promote intergenerational
play through the use of literary devices and graphic formats and
that they may prompt joint play practices in the real world. The
book offers a distinctive contribution to children's literature
scholarship by shifting critical attention away from the difference
and conflict between children and adults to the exploration of
inter-age interdependencies as equally crucial aspects of human
life, presenting a new perspective for all who research and work
with children's culture in times of global aging.
Children's Literature and Intergenerational Relationships:
Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children's
literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings
younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing
examples from diverse cultural and historical contexts, this
collection argues that children's texts promote intergenerational
play through the use of literary devices and graphic formats and
that they may prompt joint play practices in the real world. The
book offers a distinctive contribution to children's literature
scholarship by shifting critical attention away from the difference
and conflict between children and adults to the exploration of
inter-age interdependencies as equally crucial aspects of human
life, presenting a new perspective for all who research and work
with children's culture in times of global aging.
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.
Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clementine Beauvais, Justyna
Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk,
Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz,
Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, Bjoern
Sundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz,
Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb. Intergenerational
solidarity is a vital element of societal relationships that
ensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fostering
transfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, and
culture essential to human development. In the face of global
aging, changing family structures, family separations, economic
insecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against each
other, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, a
pressing need. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's
Literature and Film argues that productions for young audiences can
stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between
generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For
example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a
long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then
conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However,
Disney-Pixar's Up and Coco instead portray intergenerational
alliances - young collaborating with old, the living working
alongside the dead - as necessary to achieving goals. The
collection also testifies to the cultural, social, and political
significance of children's culture in the development of
generational intelligence and empathy towards age-others and
positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of
intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new
socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood.
Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clementine Beauvais, Justyna
Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk,
Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz,
Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, Bjoern
Sundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz,
Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb. Intergenerational
solidarity is a vital element of societal relationships that
ensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fostering
transfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, and
culture essential to human development. In the face of global
aging, changing family structures, family separations, economic
insecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against each
other, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, a
pressing need. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's
Literature and Film argues that productions for young audiences can
stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between
generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For
example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a
long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then
conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However,
Disney-Pixar's Up and Coco instead portray intergenerational
alliances - young collaborating with old, the living working
alongside the dead - as necessary to achieving goals. The
collection also testifies to the cultural, social, and political
significance of children's culture in the development of
generational intelligence and empathy towards age-others and
positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of
intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new
socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood.
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