Speech and silence in contemporary children's literature / Danielle E. Price.
- 作者： Price, Danielle E.
- 其他題名：
- Children's literature and culture.
- 出版： New York, NY : Routledge 2024.
- 叢書名： Children's literature and culture
- 主題： Speech in literature. , Silence in literature. , Children's literature--History and criticism. , Children in literature. , People with disabilities in literature. , Human-animal relationships in literature. , African American children in literature. , Youths' writings--History and criticism. , Literary criticism.
- ISBN： 9781032038384 (pbk.) :: GBP39.99 、 9781032038360 (hbk.)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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讀者標籤：
- 系統號： 005301870 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
"Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question-Who speaks?-by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak, do not yet speak effectively, or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined literary archive explores the problematics of children who are literally silent or metaphorically so because they cannot communicate effectively with adults or peers. This project centers children's literature in the question of voice by considering disability, gender, race, and ecocriticism. Children's literature rests on a paradox at the root of its own genre: it is produced by an adult author writing to a constructed idea of what children should be. By reading a range of contemporary children's literature, this book scrutinizes how such texts narrate the child's journey from communicative alterity to a place of empowered adult speech. Sometimes the child's verbal enclosure enables privacy and resistance. At other times, silence is coerced or imposed or arises from bodily impairment. Children may act as intermediaries, speaking on behalf of species that cannot. Recently, we have seen children exercise their voices on the world stage and as authors. In all cases, the texts analyzed here reveal speech as a minefield to be traversed. Children who talk too much, too little, or with insufficient expertise pose problems to themselves and others. Implicitly and sometimes explicitly, they attempt to hold adults to account-inside and outside the text. Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature addresses this underconceptualized subject in what will be an important text for scholars of children's literature, childhood studies, English, disability studies, gender studies, race studies, ecopedagogy, and education"--
內容註
Introduction: Tracing the Silent and Speaking Child -- Disability and the Silent Child: Literary Selective Mutism -- Race and Speech: Learning to Signify -- Ecology and Speech: Talking to the Animals -- Conclusion: Youth Activism, Rhetoric, and Intersectionality.