Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 229 Seiten) :
,
Illustration.
ISBN:
978-90-272-5840-3
Series Statement:
Children's literature, culture, and cognition volume 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:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-90-272-1008-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Kind
;
Altersgrenze
;
Erwachsener
;
Massenmedien
;
Massenkultur
