1st Edition
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature
By Danielle E. Price
Copyright 2023
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question— Who speaks?— by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak, do not yet speak effectively, or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined literary archive explores the problematics of children who are literally silent or metaphorically... Read more
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Tracing the Silent and Speaking Child
2 Disability and the Silent Child: Literary Selective Mutism
3 Race and Speech: Learning to Signify
4 Ecology and Speech: Talking to the Animals
5 Conclusion: Youth Activism, Rhetoric, and Intersectionality
Index
Biography
Danielle E. Price (Ph.D. UCLA) writes on children’s literature, nineteenth-century studies, and disability. Recent publications include articles on disability in contemporary children’s fiction (2022) and in George MacDonald’s The Light Princess (2019) as well as on heterotopia in Christopher Paul Curtis’ Elijah of Buxton (2016). She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Windsor.
