Children's Cultures after Childhood

Editors

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak | University of Wrocław

Macarena García-González | University of Glasgow

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Children’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from diverse disciplinary fields (literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, education, and childhood studies) offer a cross-section of empirical and theoretical approaches sharing an inspiration in the notion of “after childhoods”, proposed by Peter Kraftl, a children’s geographer, to conceptualize theoretical and methodological orientations in research on children’s lives and on past, present, and future childhoods. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to scholars working in children’s literature and culture studies, education, and childhood studies.

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 16] 2023. x, 220 pp.

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Published online on 21 July 2023

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https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.16

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii

List of figures and tables | pp. ix–x

Chapter 1. Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s cultures

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González | pp. 1–17

Cluster 1. New materialist readings of children’s cultural texts

Chapter 2. Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid tales

Elisabeth Wesseling | pp. 20–34

Chapter 3. Messy assemblages: Interplay of the organic and the inorganic in children’s toy stories

Shubhneet Kaur Kharbanda | pp. 35–51

Chapter 4. Exploring animality and childhood in stop-motion animation Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf

Kerenza Ghosh | pp. 52–70

Chapter 5. Childhood and its afterlives: Spectrality and haunting in children’s literature

Stella Miriam Pryce | pp. 71–86

Cluster 2. Relational approaches in empirical research on children’s cultures

Chapter 6. Enacting the tween news viewer: Supernytt and its audience

Linn C. Lorgen and Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen | pp. 88–101

Chapter 7. Dynamics of age and power in a children’s literature research assemblage

Leander Duthoy | pp. 102–121

Chapter 8. Research with children, weeds, and a book: An after-childhood perspective

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak | pp. 122–136

Chapter 9. Fabric with feeling: Materiality, memory, and affect in Nina Sabnani’s Mukand and Riaz

Niveditha Subramaniam | pp. 137–150

Cluster 3. After-children’s culture studies

Chapter 10. Down the back of a chair: What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” offer conceptualizations of “the child” in the Anthropocene?

Victoria de Rijke, Jayne Osgood and Laura-Rosa | pp. 152–170

Chapter 11. Weird readings and little machines: Against reading engagement

Soledad Véliz | pp. 171–184

Chapter 12. Literature and culture studies in classrooms: From petrification to spark

Denise Newfield | pp. 185–200

Afterword: New materialist insights for the text-based scholar

Karen Coats | pp. 201–217

Index | pp. 219–220

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