Overview

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.

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Author:   Roxanne Harde ,  Lydia Kokkola
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138081567

ISBN 10:   1138081566
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   07 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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"

Reviews

""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, Vancouver

"""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, Vancouver"

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, Vancouver

Author Information

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 Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.

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