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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151708003321

Titolo

Child autonomy and child governance in children's literature : where children rule / / edited by Christopher Kelen and Bjorn Sundmark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-39479-8

1-315-67964-7

1-317-39480-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Children's Literature and Culture

Altri autori (Persone)

KelenChristopher <1958->

SundmarkBjorn

Disciplina

809/.89282

809.89282

Soggetti

Autonomy in children in literature

Children's literature - History and criticism

Children's rights in literature

Power (Philosophy) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Where children rule : an introduction / Kit Kelen and Bjorn Sundmark -- 2. Can children rule? an enquiry into Locke's ideas of children and government / Mavis Reimer and Charlie Peters -- 3. Discourses of internationalism in children's literature / Emer O'Sullivan -- 4. Mysteries and histories : children and the paradox of religious empowerment / Robert A. Davis --  5. Where the child is father : republics, expulsions and the rule(s) of poetry: exploring Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" / Kit Kelen  -- 6. The child Robinsonade / Bjorn Sundmark --  7. (Child) reign of terror : dangerous child regimes / Bjorn Sundmark  --  8. Where girls rule by magic : metaphors of agency / Clare Bradford --  9. In the kingdom of cancer : dying children living their own lives in contemporary YA novels / Karin Nykvist -- 10. The king of misrule / Anna Czernow -- 11. "I've a crown on my head!" The ruling animal in children's fiction / Zoe Jaques --  12. Woods where things have no names : an investigation of "The teddy bears' picnic" /



Kit Kelen -- 13. Children's rule in comic strips and TV series / Ase Marie Ommundsen -- 14. Finding the spaces within : picturebooks in which children (can) enter and have agency / Junko Yokota -- 15. Playtime in playworld : how children learn to rule / You Chengcheng and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang.