ISBN:
9789027210081
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 229 Seiten
,
1 Illustration
Series Statement:
Children's literature, culture, and cognition volume 11
Series Statement:
Children's literature, culture, and cognition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Malewski, Anne Growing sideways in twenty-first century British culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Malewski, Anne Growing Sideways in Twenty-First Century British Culture
DDC:
305.230941
Keywords:
Children
;
Adulthood
;
Children in mass media
;
Children in popular culture
;
Großbritannien
;
Erwachsener
;
Kind
;
Altersgrenze
;
Massenmedien
;
Massenkultur
;
Geschichte 2000-2020
Abstract:
"This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century - where these age boundaries are widely debated, policed, and contested - to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on observations, especially in children's literature criticism, that human growth is shaped by a grand narrative that privileges adulthood, and on terminologies of non-normative growth, particularly in queer theory, this monograph develops growing sideways as a concept that queers this grand narrative by destabilising childhood and adulthood, and the boundaries between them. The concept is refined through close readings of twenty-first century British children's literature, television series, film, and participatory events, troubling age boundaries via specific strategies in three conceptual areas: appearance, play, and space. Exploring power structures around age and gender, this monograph traces growing sideways as a distinct and important alternative discourse of human growth"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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