The Embodied Child
Readings in Children's Literature and Culture
Published on 11. September 2017
294 pages
978-1-351-58856-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children's bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the impact they have on society, and how the child's body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They also consider the portrayal of children's bodies in terms of the seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child.
Reviews / Votes
"Overall, the work presented in this volume provides readers with a wide range of perspectives and theories around the body and embodiment as it relates to the (mostly older) child in popular culture-offering scholars of child studies, children's literature, and education a foundational collection through which to explore the interrelated, fluid boundaries of child, body, and text." Caroline Hamilton-McKenna, University of British Columbia, VancouverMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Illustrations, black and white
File size
1,36 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-58856-0 (9781351588560)
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Persons
Roxanne Harde is Professor of English and Associate Dean (Research) at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta.
Lydia Kokkola is Head of English and Education at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.
Lydia Kokkola is Head of English and Education at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.
Content
Acknowledgements
The Embodied Child: An Introduction
Lydia Kokkola
Chapter 1. Anne's Body Has a Mind (and a Soul) of Its Own: Embodiment and the Cartesian Legacy in Anne of Green Gables
Janet Wesselius
Section 1: Politicizations
Chapter 2. Learning Not to Hate What We Are: Black Power, Literature, and the Black Child
Karen Sands-O'Connor
Chapter 3. "It's my skin that's paid most dearly": Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian Body
Roxanne Harde
Chapter 4. Invisibility and (Dis)Embodiment in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours
Heather Braun
Chapter 5. From the Kitchen to the Edges: The Politics of Hair in African American Children's Picture Books
Michelle Martin and Rachelle Washington
Section 2: Corporealities
Chapter 6. Disciplining Normalcy: What Katy Did and Nineteenth-Century Female Bodies
Julie Pfeiffer and Darla Schumm
Chapter 7. Embodying the Healthy, Charitable Child in the Junior Red Cross
Kristine Moruzi
Chapter 8. Liberty in the Age of Eugenics: Non-normative Bodies in Fabian Socialist Children's Fiction
Amanda Hollander
Section 3: Reading Bodies
Chapter 9. Embodied Readings of Blackfoot Place and Identity
Erin Spring
Chapter 10. The Flourishing Child: Representations of Embodied Wellbeing in Contemporary Picturebooks
Adrielle Britten
Chapter 11. The Child's Reading Body
Margaret Mackey
Chapter 12. Hands on Reading: The Body, the Brain and the Book
Lydia Kokkola
Section 4: Commodifications
Chapter 13. "Little cooks": Food and the Disciplined Body in Nineteenth-Century Stories for Girls
Samantha Christensen and Roxanne Harde
Chapter 14. Break Dancing: Reading the Ballerina in To Dance
Jennifer Miskec
Chapter 15. Embodied Performances by Lesbian Cheerleaders and Dancers in Glee and Leading Ladies
Kate Norbury
Chapter 16. A Dolla Makes Her Holla: The 21st -Century Sexualized, Knowing Child of Reality TV
Lance Weldy
Notes on Contributors
Index
The Embodied Child: An Introduction
Lydia Kokkola
Chapter 1. Anne's Body Has a Mind (and a Soul) of Its Own: Embodiment and the Cartesian Legacy in Anne of Green Gables
Janet Wesselius
Section 1: Politicizations
Chapter 2. Learning Not to Hate What We Are: Black Power, Literature, and the Black Child
Karen Sands-O'Connor
Chapter 3. "It's my skin that's paid most dearly": Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian Body
Roxanne Harde
Chapter 4. Invisibility and (Dis)Embodiment in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours
Heather Braun
Chapter 5. From the Kitchen to the Edges: The Politics of Hair in African American Children's Picture Books
Michelle Martin and Rachelle Washington
Section 2: Corporealities
Chapter 6. Disciplining Normalcy: What Katy Did and Nineteenth-Century Female Bodies
Julie Pfeiffer and Darla Schumm
Chapter 7. Embodying the Healthy, Charitable Child in the Junior Red Cross
Kristine Moruzi
Chapter 8. Liberty in the Age of Eugenics: Non-normative Bodies in Fabian Socialist Children's Fiction
Amanda Hollander
Section 3: Reading Bodies
Chapter 9. Embodied Readings of Blackfoot Place and Identity
Erin Spring
Chapter 10. The Flourishing Child: Representations of Embodied Wellbeing in Contemporary Picturebooks
Adrielle Britten
Chapter 11. The Child's Reading Body
Margaret Mackey
Chapter 12. Hands on Reading: The Body, the Brain and the Book
Lydia Kokkola
Section 4: Commodifications
Chapter 13. "Little cooks": Food and the Disciplined Body in Nineteenth-Century Stories for Girls
Samantha Christensen and Roxanne Harde
Chapter 14. Break Dancing: Reading the Ballerina in To Dance
Jennifer Miskec
Chapter 15. Embodied Performances by Lesbian Cheerleaders and Dancers in Glee and Leading Ladies
Kate Norbury
Chapter 16. A Dolla Makes Her Holla: The 21st -Century Sexualized, Knowing Child of Reality TV
Lance Weldy
Notes on Contributors
Index
