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Part of a series of books which trace the changes in the way that the figure of the 'child' has been represented in literary cultures across the ages
Takes broad definition of the term 'literary cultures' and how they intersect with digital, film, graphic narrative, comics, advertising, and other formats
Features contributions from a broad range of academics across various disciplines
Part of the book series: Literary Cultures and Childhoods (LICUCH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Children’s Rights and Role Models
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Social Justice and Diversitydiversity in Literature for Young Readersgenreyoung readers
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Representing Youth, Claiming Identity, and Exercising Agency
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Coming of Age in the Anthropocene
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About this book
In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies
of past centuries and their cascading effects upon children and all people. We
realize anew how imperialism, globalization, industrialization, and revolution
continue to reshape our world and that of new generations. At a volatile moment,
this collection asks how twenty-first century literature and related media
represent and shape the contemporary child, childhood, and youth.
Because literary representations construct ideal childhoods as well as model the
rights, privileges, and respect afforded to actual young people, this collection
surveys examples from popular culture and from scholarly practice. Chapters
investigate the human rights of children in literature and international policy; the
potential subjective agency and power of the child; the role models proposed for
young people; the diverse identities children embody and encounter; and the
environmental well-being of future human and nonhuman generations.
As a snapshot of our developing historical moment, this collection identifies
emergent trends, considers theories and critiques of childhood and literature,
and observes how new technologies and paradigms are destabilizing past
conventions of storytelling and lived experience.
Editors and Affiliations
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Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, USA
Nathalie op de Beeck
About the editor
Nathalie op de Beeck is the author of Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture
Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity (2010) and co-creator of Little Machinery:
A Critical Facsimile Edition (2009). Her work appears in The Oxford Handbook of
Children’s Literature (2011), The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks (2017),
and journals including CLAQ and CLE. She is Associate Professor of English at
Pacific Lutheran University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literary Cultures and Twenty-First-Century Childhoods
Editors: Nathalie op de Beeck
Series Title: Literary Cultures and Childhoods
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32146-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32145-1Published: 06 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32148-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32146-8Published: 05 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 279
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Children's Literature, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Cultural History, British Culture, American Culture