Children's cultures after childhood /

"Children's Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children's literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international con...

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Other Authors:	Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna (Editor), García, Macarena (García González) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]
Series:	Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition Series.
Subjects:	Mass media and children. Children's literature. Arts and children. Children > Social conditions. Médias et enfants. Arts et enfants. Enfants > Conditions sociales. LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature. Arts and children Children > Social conditions Children's literature Mass media and children Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Intro
Children's Cultures after Childhood
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
Chapter 1 Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children's cultures
The porous field of children's cultures
Children's culture as intra-actions
References
Secondary sources
Cluster 1 New materialist readings of children's cultural texts
Chapter 2 Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid tales
The mermaid as a posthuman figuration
Beyond Romantic mermaidology
Rocks, wood, water, tails, and legs
An animate universe
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Chapter 3 Messy assemblages
Reading toy narratives and invoking posthuman play
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Conclusion
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Chapter 4 Exploring animality and childhood in stop-motion animation Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf
Understanding animality
"Childhoodnature" and "after childhood"
Animals in animation
Visual and musical depictions of animality
Companionship, playfulness, humor, and death
Developing childhoodnature encounters and celebrating animality
Conclusion
References
Primary sources
Primary sources
Chapter 5 Childhood and its afterlives
The spectral turn
Children's literature without binaries?
"Poor little half-and-half (...) You will be a Betwixt-and-Between" (Barrie: 121)
He escaped, but his shadow hadn't time to get out (Barrie: 214)
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Cluster 2 Relational approaches in empirical research on children's cultures
Chapter 6 Enacting the tween news viewer
Conceptual framework
Methodological framework
Enactments of the tween news viewer
Between text and viewers
Concluding discussion
References
Secondary sources
Chapter 7 Dynamics of age and power in a children's literature research assemblage
New materialism and power
Age and power in children's literature
Shaping the interviews
Negotiations of age and power in the research assemblage
Age, characters, and power
Closing thoughts and future potential
Funding
Acknowledgements
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Chapter 8 Research with children, weeds, and a book
The encounter with the weeds
The art of attentiveness
In the shadow of the child
Zooming in on the weeds
Children-weeds-book entanglements
Stories we tell through research matter
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Chapter 9 Fabric with feeling
Touchstones for thought
Memory and narrativization
Transitive relations and criss-crossing modalities
A return to touchstones
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Cluster 3 After-children's culture studies