The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture is an innovative and timely collection of essays that offers rich analyses of children's bodies as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. In this ground-breaking work, editors Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola have brought together some of the most renown scholars in childhood studies who each delve into the complex ways children and their physical form are represented literature. Each chapter introduces readers to the subject through a distinctive lens, whether it be queer, racial, gendered, or those that are…mehr
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture is an innovative and timely collection of essays that offers rich analyses of children's bodies as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. In this ground-breaking work, editors Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola have brought together some of the most renown scholars in childhood studies who each delve into the complex ways children and their physical form are represented literature. Each chapter introduces readers to the subject through a distinctive lens, whether it be queer, racial, gendered, or those that are less often discussed, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child.
Roxanne Harde is Professor of English and Associate Dean (Research) at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta. Lydia Kokkola is Head of English and Education at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
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Acknowledgements The Embodied Child: An Introduction Lydia Kokkola Chapter 1. Anne's Body Has a Mind (and a Soul) of Its Own: Embodiment and the Cartesian Legacy in Anne of Green Gables Janet Wesselius Section 1: Politicizations Chapter 2. Learning Not to Hate What We Are: Black Power, Literature, and the Black Child Karen Sands-O'Connor Chapter 3. "It's my skin that's paid most dearly": Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian Body Roxanne Harde Chapter 4. Invisibility and (Dis)Embodiment in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours Heather Braun Chapter 5. From the Kitchen to the Edges: The Politics of Hair in African American Children's Picture Books Michelle Martin and Rachelle Washington Section 2: Corporealities Chapter 6. Disciplining Normalcy: What Katy Did and Nineteenth-Century Female Bodies Julie Pfeiffer and Darla Schumm Chapter 7. Embodying the Healthy, Charitable Child in the Junior Red Cross Kristine Moruzi Chapter 8. Liberty in the Age of Eugenics: Non-normative Bodies in Fabian Socialist Children's Fiction Amanda Hollander Section 3: Reading Bodies Chapter 9. Embodied Readings of Blackfoot Place and Identity Erin Spring Chapter 10. The Flourishing Child: Representations of Embodied Wellbeing in Contemporary Picturebooks Adrielle Britten Chapter 11. The Child's Reading Body Margaret Mackey Chapter 12. Hands on Reading: The Body, the Brain and the Book Lydia Kokkola Section 4: Commodifications Chapter 13. "Little cooks": Food and the Disciplined Body in Nineteenth-Century Stories for Girls Samantha Christensen and Roxanne Harde Chapter 14. Break Dancing: Reading the Ballerina in To Dance Jennifer Miskec Chapter 15. Embodied Performances by Lesbian Cheerleaders and Dancers in Glee and Leading Ladies Kate Norbury Chapter 16. A Dolla Makes Her Holla: The 21st -Century Sexualized, Knowing Child of Reality TV Lance Weldy Notes on Contributors Index
Acknowledgements The Embodied Child: An Introduction Lydia Kokkola Chapter 1. Anne's Body Has a Mind (and a Soul) of Its Own: Embodiment and the Cartesian Legacy in Anne of Green Gables Janet Wesselius Section 1: Politicizations Chapter 2. Learning Not to Hate What We Are: Black Power, Literature, and the Black Child Karen Sands-O'Connor Chapter 3. "It's my skin that's paid most dearly": Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian Body Roxanne Harde Chapter 4. Invisibility and (Dis)Embodiment in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours Heather Braun Chapter 5. From the Kitchen to the Edges: The Politics of Hair in African American Children's Picture Books Michelle Martin and Rachelle Washington Section 2: Corporealities Chapter 6. Disciplining Normalcy: What Katy Did and Nineteenth-Century Female Bodies Julie Pfeiffer and Darla Schumm Chapter 7. Embodying the Healthy, Charitable Child in the Junior Red Cross Kristine Moruzi Chapter 8. Liberty in the Age of Eugenics: Non-normative Bodies in Fabian Socialist Children's Fiction Amanda Hollander Section 3: Reading Bodies Chapter 9. Embodied Readings of Blackfoot Place and Identity Erin Spring Chapter 10. The Flourishing Child: Representations of Embodied Wellbeing in Contemporary Picturebooks Adrielle Britten Chapter 11. The Child's Reading Body Margaret Mackey Chapter 12. Hands on Reading: The Body, the Brain and the Book Lydia Kokkola Section 4: Commodifications Chapter 13. "Little cooks": Food and the Disciplined Body in Nineteenth-Century Stories for Girls Samantha Christensen and Roxanne Harde Chapter 14. Break Dancing: Reading the Ballerina in To Dance Jennifer Miskec Chapter 15. Embodied Performances by Lesbian Cheerleaders and Dancers in Glee and Leading Ladies Kate Norbury Chapter 16. A Dolla Makes Her Holla: The 21st -Century Sexualized, Knowing Child of Reality TV Lance Weldy Notes on Contributors Index
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