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  title info:
    title: Speech and silence in contemporary children's literature
  name:
    name part: Price, Danielle E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 190 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question, who speaks?, by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak, do not yet speak effectively or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined literary archive explores the problematics of children who are literally silent or metaphorically so because they cannot communicate effectively with adults or peers. This project centers children's literature in the question of voice by considering disability, gender, race and ecocriticism. Children's literature rests on a paradox at the root of its own genre. It is produced by an adult author writing to a constructed idea of what children should be. By reading a range of contemporary children's literature, this book scrutinizes how such texts narrate the child's journey from communicative alterity to a place of empowered adult speech. Sometimes the child's verbal enclosure enables privacy and resistance. At other times, silence is coerced or imposed or arises from bodily impairment. Children may act as intermediaries, speaking on behalf of species that cannot. Recently, we have seen children exercise their voices on the world stage and as authors. In all cases, the texts analyzed here reveal speech as a minefield to be traversed. Children who talk too much, too little or with insufficient expertise pose problems to themselves and others. Implicitly and sometimes explicitly, they attempt to hold adults to account, inside and outside the text. Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature addresses this underconceptualized subject in what will be an important text for scholars of children's literature, childhood studies, English, disability studies, gender studies, race studies, ecopedagogy and education.
  table of contents: Introduction: Tracing the Silent and Speaking Child -- Disability and the Silent Child: Literary Selective Mutism -- Race and Speech: Learning to Signify -- Ecology and Speech: Talking to the Animals -- Conclusion: Youth Activism, Rhetoric, and Intersectionality.
  note: Danielle E. Price.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Speech in literature
  subject:
    topic: Silence in literature
  subject:
    topic: Children's literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Children in literature
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities in literature
  subject:
    topic: Human-animal relationships in literature
  subject:
    topic: African American children in literature
  subject:
    topic: Youths' writings
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN1009.5.S65 P75 2024
  classification: 809/.89282
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230626
    record change date: 20240304212404.2
    record identifier: in00004780076