1st Edition
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Preface 1: Children and Animal ‘Pets’
Monica Flegel
Preface 2: On Childhood Studies and Human Exceptionalism
Kenneth Kidd
Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Childhood and Pethood
Anna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo
Section I: Family, Language, and Nationhood
1. Custody, Adoption, Protection: Contested Institutional Representations of Pets as Children
James Gillett
2. Transgressing the ‘Luggage’ Metaphor: Children and Pets as Migrants in the Context of Contemporary International Mobility from Poland to Norway
Justyna Struzik and Paula Pustulka
3. Who Needs Protection and Discipline? Children, Pets, and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman and Turkish Lands
Melis Sulos
4. Pets as Vehicles of Language Socialization: Encouraging Children’s Emotional, Moral, and Relational Development in Japanese
Matthew Burdelski
5. Moamahi ā Puaʻa Moe Poli: Nā Keiki a nā Hānaiāhuhu i ka Moʻomeheu Hawaiʻi (Cherished Chickens to Chest-cuddled Pigs: Children and Pets in Hawaiian Culture)
ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui
Section II: Literature for Children and Adults
6. Pullman, Pets, and Posthuman Animals: The Dæmon-child of His Dark Materials
Zoe Jaques
7. Domesticating Dorothy: Toto’s Role in Constructing Childhood in The Wizard of Oz and Its Retellings
Caryn Kunz Lesuma
8. Mr. Dog Is a Conservative: Representations of Children and/as Animals in Little Golden Books
Kelly Hübben
9. ‘Oh God, Give Me Horses!’: Pony-Mad Girls, Sexuality, and Pethood
Amalya Layla Ashman
10. ‘The cats are outside hanging’: Settler Colonialism, Racialized Animality, and Queer Kinship in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging
Anna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo
11. Doomed Creatures: Children and Nonhuman Animals in Contemporary Southern African Fiction in English
Wendy Woodward
Section III: Music and Visual Culture
12. Bird Songs for Children, the Rhetoric of Conservation, and Voicing the Bird in the United States, 1900-1930
Katheryn Lawson
13. Black Children as Pets in Eighteenth-Century European Courts
Michèle Bocquillon
14. ‘The Values of Savagery’: Pathologies of Child and Pet Play in Avant-Garde Visual Culture
Victoria de Rijke
15. The Best Friend: Exploring Power Relations of the Child-Pet Co-Construction in Children’s TV Programs
Åsa Pettersson
Index
Biography
Anna Feuerstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai’i – Manoa, USA.
Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu, USA.
"[This book]’s accessible and thorough analysis of the discourse around the statuses of being a child and being a pet provides an essential understanding of how these discourses developed and their real-world impact. This volume is a crucial contribution to current work on children, childhood studies, and animals." --Amy Ratelle, University of Toronto, Canada
