UID:
almahu_9949209706102882
Format:
1 online resource (243 pages)
ISBN:
90-272-5840-6
Series Statement:
Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition ; v.11
Content:
"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"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Malewski, Anne Growing Sideways in Twenty-First Century British Culture Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2021 ISBN 9789027210081
Language:
English
