Hannah Dyer

The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood

Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. She asserts that in the aesthetics of childhood, a more just future can be conjured.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 130mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 192g
• ISBN-13: 9781978803992
• ISBN-10: 1978803990
• Artikelnr.: 57024310

Autorenporträt

HANNAH DYER is an assistant professor of child and youth studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Childhood's Queer Intimacies and Affective Intensities
1 Queer Temporality in the Playroom: Ebony G. Patterson and Jonathon
Hobin's Aesthetics of Child Development
2  Art and the Refusal of Empathy in A Child's View from Gaza
3 The Queer Remains of Childhood Trauma: Notes on A Little Life
4 Reparation for a Violent Boyhood in This is England
Epilogue: The Contested Design of Children's Sexuality
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index