1st Edition
Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature Where Children Rule
250 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children’s literature depends on the idea that children are... Read more
Table of contents
- Where Children Rule: An Introduction - Kit Kelen and Björn Sundmark
- Can Children Rule? An Enquiry into Locke’s Ideas of Children and Government - Mavis Reimer and Charlie Peters
- Discourses of Internationalism in Children’s Literature - Emer O’Sullivan
- Mysteries and Histories: Children and the Paradox of Religious Empowerment – Robert A. Davis
- Where the Child is father – Republics, Expulsions and the Rule(s) of Poetry: Exploring Lewis Carroll’s "Jabberwocky" - Kit Kelen
- The Child Robinsonade - Björn Sundmark
- (Child)Reign of Terror: Dangerous Child Régimes - Björn Sundmark
- Where Girls Rule by Magic: Metaphors of Agency - Clare Bradford
- In the Kingdom of Cancer: Dying Children Living Their Own Lives in Contemporary YA Novel - Karin Nykvist
- The King of Misrule - Anna Maria Czernow
- "I’ve a crown on my head!": The Ruling Animal in Children’s Fiction - Zoe Jaques
- Woods Where Things Have No Names: An Investigation of "The Teddy Bears’ Picnic" - Kit Kelen
- Children’s Rule in Comic Strips and Television Series - Åse Marie Ommundsen
- Finding the Spaces Within: Picture Books in Which Children (Can) Enter and Have Agency -Junko Yokota
- Playtime in Playworld – How Children Learn to Rule – You Chengcheng & Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang
Biography
Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a well known Australian poet and Professor of English at the University of Macau. His monograph Anthem Quality - National Songs, A Theoretical Survey was published by Intellect/University of Chicago Press in 2014.
Björn Sundmark is Professor of English Literature at Malmö University, Sweden, and the editor of Bookbird – Journal of International Children’s Literature.
