UID:
almafu_9959200889502883
Format:
1 online resource (170 p.) :
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4 b-w images
ISBN:
9781978804036
Series Statement:
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Content:
In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer’s analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children’s drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Introduction: Childhood’s Queer Intimacies and Affective Intensities --
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1. Queer Temporality in the Playroom: Ebony G. Patterson’s and Jonathon Hobin’s Aesthetics of Child Development --
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2. Art and the Refusal of Empathy in A Child’s View from Gaza --
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3. The Queer Remains of Childhood Trauma: Notes on A Little Life --
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4. Reparation for a Violent Boyhood in This Is England --
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Epilogue: The Contested Design of Children’s Sexuality --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index --
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978804036
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978804036
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978804036
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