1st Edition
Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature
By Susan Honeyman
Copyright 2010
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childlore and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent resistance as it can be read or expressed in bodies, first through social puppetry and then through coercive temptation (our consumption replacing the... Read more
List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Material Youth 1: What Good Little Girls and Boys Are Made Of 2: Honey(Cakes) 3: Sweet Teeth 4: Molasses 5: Muscle and Greens Conclusion: Flesh and Blood Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Susan Honeyman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
"Honeyman's significant contribution to the study of children's texts is easily assignable to students at all levels, who will enjoy the references to American Idol and Twilight as much as the explications of older lore altered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
--Children's Literature Association Quarterly
