This collection examines contemporary children's literature, film, and video games to explore how everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. Thus, the book updates childhood studies discourse by offering a more inclusive and realistic definition of childhood in the twenty-first century.
This collection examines contemporary children's literature, film, and video games to explore how everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. Thus, the book updates childhood studies discourse by offering a more inclusive and realistic definition of childhood in the twenty-first century.
Edited by James M. Curtis - Contributions by Kirsten Bilger; Sumaria Butt; Cara Byrne; Michael G. Cornelius; S. Leigh Ann Cowan; James M. Curtis; Jamie M. Fine; Joseph V. Giunta; Kristin Kondrlik; Imogen Nutting; Ryan Twomey; Meghan Whitfield and Allyson
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction, "Constructing the 21st Century Child" James Curtis Part I: Picturing a New Kind of Childhood Chapter One: "Rainbows in the Window: Static Childhood in COVID-19 Picture Books" Cara Byrne and Kristin Kondrlik Chapter Two: "Picturing Political Agency in Childhood: Visual Rhetoric of Child Activism and Identity in Children's Literature" Meghan Whitfield Chapter Three: "[Re]Interpreting the Deaf Child's Solitude: A Counternarrative to Cece Bell's El Deafo" S. Leigh Ann Cowan Part II: The Rule of Law and Transgressive Constructions of American Childhood Chapter Four: "Because What You Don't Know Can Kill You: Law, YA Lit, and the American Adolescent Today" Jamie M. Fine Chapter Five: "These Are the Rooms We're Not Supposed to Go In...But Let's Go Anyway!": Celebrating the Mobile Child, Embracing Nontraditional Kinship Structures, and Deconstructing Neglect in The Florida Project" Joseph V. Giunta Part III: Technology and the Posthuman Child Chapter Six: "Roblox and the Value in Suspending Playbor Time" Sumaria Butt Chapter Seven: "Happy Endings, Only $1.99: Uncovering the Corruption of Fairytales in Hope: The Other Side of Adventure and its Online Legacy" Imogen Nutting and Ryan Twomey Part IV: The 21st Century and the Necessity of Trauma-Informed Narratives Chapter Eight: "The New 'Normal'": Cancer and Childhood in Rob Harrell's Wink Allyson Wierenga Chapter Nine: "The Trauma of Childhood and Emerging into Adulthood in A Court of Thorns and Roses" Kirsten Bilger and Michael G. Cornelius About the Contributors
Introduction, "Constructing the 21st Century Child" James Curtis Part I: Picturing a New Kind of Childhood Chapter One: "Rainbows in the Window: Static Childhood in COVID-19 Picture Books" Cara Byrne and Kristin Kondrlik Chapter Two: "Picturing Political Agency in Childhood: Visual Rhetoric of Child Activism and Identity in Children's Literature" Meghan Whitfield Chapter Three: "[Re]Interpreting the Deaf Child's Solitude: A Counternarrative to Cece Bell's El Deafo" S. Leigh Ann Cowan Part II: The Rule of Law and Transgressive Constructions of American Childhood Chapter Four: "Because What You Don't Know Can Kill You: Law, YA Lit, and the American Adolescent Today" Jamie M. Fine Chapter Five: "These Are the Rooms We're Not Supposed to Go In...But Let's Go Anyway!": Celebrating the Mobile Child, Embracing Nontraditional Kinship Structures, and Deconstructing Neglect in The Florida Project" Joseph V. Giunta Part III: Technology and the Posthuman Child Chapter Six: "Roblox and the Value in Suspending Playbor Time" Sumaria Butt Chapter Seven: "Happy Endings, Only $1.99: Uncovering the Corruption of Fairytales in Hope: The Other Side of Adventure and its Online Legacy" Imogen Nutting and Ryan Twomey Part IV: The 21st Century and the Necessity of Trauma-Informed Narratives Chapter Eight: "The New 'Normal'": Cancer and Childhood in Rob Harrell's Wink Allyson Wierenga Chapter Nine: "The Trauma of Childhood and Emerging into Adulthood in A Court of Thorns and Roses" Kirsten Bilger and Michael G. Cornelius About the Contributors
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