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This 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widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including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, fiction, historical fiction or biography, picturebooks, and
children's 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 spectacle, self, and specularity across
the twentieth-century; question tropes of childhood; explore
identity and displacement in narrating history and culture; and
elevate children as makers of literary culture. A major intent of
the volume is to approach literary culture not just as produced by
adults for consumption by children but also as co-created by young
people through their actions as speakers, artists, readers, and
writers.
This 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widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including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, fiction, historical fiction or biography, picturebooks, and
children's 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 spectacle, self, and specularity across
the twentieth-century; question tropes of childhood; explore
identity and displacement in narrating history and culture; and
elevate children as makers of literary culture. A major intent of
the volume is to approach literary culture not just as produced by
adults for consumption by children but also as co-created by young
people through their actions as speakers, artists, readers, and
writers.
Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary
canon. Because of cultural biases that frame young people as
intellectually and artistically immature, these works are often
excluded or dismissed as juvenilia. Rachel Conrad contends that
youth-composed poems should be read as literary works in their own
right -- works that are deserving of greater respect in literary
culture.Time for Childhoods presents a selection of striking
twentieth-and twenty-first-century American poetry written by young
people, and highlights how young poets imagined and shaped time for
their own poetic purposes. Through close engagement with archival
materials, as well as select interviews and correspondence with
adult mentors, Conrad discerns how young writers figured social
realities and political and racial injustices, and discusses what
important advocates such as Gwendolyn Brooks and June Jordan can
teach us about supporting the agency of young poets. This essential
study demonstrates that young poets have much to contribute to
ongoing conversations about time and power.
Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics,
xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically
fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a
boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The
contributors provocatively suggest contagion to be as full of
possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the
descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control. The
infectious practices rooted in politics, film, psychological
exchanges, social movements, the classroom, and the circulation of
a literary text or meme on social media compellingly reveal
patterns that emerge in those attempts to re-route, quarantine,
define, or even exacerbate various contagions.
Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics,
xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically
fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a
boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The
contributors provocatively suggest contagion to be as full of
possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the
descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control. The
infectious practices rooted in politics, film, psychological
exchanges, social movements, the classroom, and the circulation of
a literary text or meme on social media compellingly reveal
patterns that emerge in those attempts to re-route, quarantine,
define, or even exacerbate various contagions.
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