Umfang:
1 online resource (243 pages)
ISBN:
9789027258403
Serie:
Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition Ser. v.11
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Structures of feeling growth -- Previous research on blurring age boundaries -- Scope and terminology -- Age -- Boundaries -- Structures of feeling -- Research corpus -- Chapter overview -- Growing sideways: Queering normative ideas of growing up -- The grand narrative of upwards growth -- Alternative concepts of growth -- Not upwards, full stop. -- Irregularity -- Re-evaluating age categories -- Enrichment -- Feeling queer in growth -- (Re)Defining sideways growth -- Working definition -- Conclusion: Growing sideways as a way of noticing -- Appearance: Passing | Cross-dressing -- Passing -- Nothing Short of Brilliant: Agency and authority -- Tall orders: Feeling in between and gaining perspectives -- Cross-dressing -- A matter of form: Repeating and refusing performances -- Casual empowerment: From wearing onesies to dressing up -- Conclusion: Embracing the excluded middle -- Play: Performative (role) play | Play(fulness) as a queer way of life -- Approaching play: Trends and definitions -- Performative (role) play -- (Role-)Playing childhood -- (Role-)Playing adulthood -- Adulting -- Play(fulness) as a queer way of life -- Individual commitment -- Play communities -- Conclusion: Possibilities at play -- Space: Resistance | Release -- Resistance -- Resisting unfriendly spaces -- Release -- Roaming wild spaces -- Disorientating spatial practices -- Conclusion: Containing resistance and release -- Conclusion: Feeling growth sideways -- Tracing patterns of continuity and limitation -- A toolkit for further research -- Keeping the kaleidoscopes turning -- References -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789027210081
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Malewski, Anne Growing sideways in twenty-first century British culture Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021 ISBN 9789027210081
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
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Geschichte 2000-2020
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Massenkultur
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Massenmedien
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Altersgrenze
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Kind
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Erwachsener
