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An investigation of identity formation in children's literature,
this book brings together children's literature and recent critical
concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children's fiction
offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means
to be human, and in particular about humanity's relationship to
animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human
identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a
multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge
from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon
earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to
younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the
non-human (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have
interpretations that radically depart from the critical tradition,
which, in its concerns with the socialization and representation of
the child, has ignored larger epistemologies of humanness. The book
considers canonical texts of children's literature alongside recent
bestsellers and films, locating texts such as Gulliver's Travels
(1726), Pinocchio (1883) and the Alice books (1865, 1871) as
important works in the evolution of posthuman ideas. This study
provides radical new readings of children's literature and
demonstrates that the genre offers sophisticated interventions into
the nature, boundaries and dominion of humanity.
Emerging in several different versions during the author's
lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history
almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe
Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of
the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent
transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music
videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the
reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider
issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact
on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts
and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing
for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of
Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his
writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual
commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in
Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of
childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the
story, and the representation of the child's body by various
illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to
childhood studies.
Emerging in several different versions during the author's
lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history
almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe
Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of
the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent
transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music
videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the
reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider
issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact
on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts
and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing
for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of
Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his
writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual
commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in
Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of
childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the
story, and the representation of the child's body by various
illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to
childhood studies.
An investigation of identity formation in children's literature,
this book brings together children's literature and recent critical
concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children's fiction
offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means
to be human, and in particular about humanity's relationship to
animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human
identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a
multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge
from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon
earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to
younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the
non-human (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have
interpretations that radically depart from the critical tradition,
which, in its concerns with the socialization and representation of
the child, has ignored larger epistemologies of humanness. The book
considers canonical texts of children's literature alongside recent
bestsellers and films, locating texts such as Gulliver's Travels
(1726), Pinocchio (1883) and the Alice books (1865, 1871) as
important works in the evolution of posthuman ideas. This study
provides radical new readings of children's literature and
demonstrates that the genre offers sophisticated interventions into
the nature, boundaries and dominion of humanity.
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam
to-day. Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice
Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872).
Although Carroll intended Looking-Glass to be a follow-up piece to
the immediately successful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865),
he created an entirely new fantasy world with a revised narrative
structure. The twelve-chapter format was retained, but
Looking-Glass is significantly longer than Wonderland (224 compared
to 192 pages in the first editions), and introduces a range of new
characters, and is framed by Alice's progression across a chess
board to become queen. This new edition focuses solely on Through
the Looking-Glass, with a penetrating and informative introduction
by Zoe Jaques, including the most recent research and critical
opinion on the subject matter.
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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