The child gaze : narrating resistance in American literature /

"The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature for children and adults. Through a range of texts, including James Baldwin's Little Man, Little Man, Mildre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greenwell, Amanda M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]
Series:	Children's Literature Association series.
Subjects:	Gaze in literature. Children in literature. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Visual perception in literature. Visualization in literature. Regard dans la littérature. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique. Perception visuelle dans la littérature. Visualisation dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The power and possibilities of centering child sight lines
Chapter One: The appreciative child gaze: valuing visions of marginalized childhoods
Chapter Two: The countersurveillant child gaze: looking back at authority
Chapter Three: The transactional child gaze: wrestling with ideology in the visual surround
Chapter Four: Comics form and materialization of the child gaze
Epilogue: Envisioning avenues for further study
Notes
Works cited
Index.