Children's Cultures after Childhood.

• Superior document: Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition Series ; v.16
• Author: Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna.
• TeilnehmendeR: García-González, Macarena.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 pages)

"Children's Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children's literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from diverse disciplinary fields (literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, education, and childhood studies) offer a cross-section of empirical and theoretical approaches sharing an inspiration in the notion of "after childhoods", proposed by Peter Kraftl, a children's geographer, to conceptualize theoretical and methodological orientations in research on children's lives and on past, present, and future childhoods. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to scholars working in children's literature and culture studies, education, and childhood studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Children's Cultures after Childhood -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures and tables -- Chapter 1 Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children's cultures -- The porous field of children's cultures -- Children's culture as intra-actions -- References -- Secondary sources -- Cluster 1 New materialist readings of children's cultural texts -- Chapter 2 Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid tales -- The mermaid as a posthuman figuration -- Beyond Romantic mermaidology -- Rocks, wood, water, tails, and legs -- An animate universe -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 3 Messy assemblages -- Reading toy narratives and invoking posthuman play -- The Velveteen Rabbit -- The Indian in the Cupboard -- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 4 Exploring animality and childhood in stop-motion animation Prokofiev's Peter &amp -- the Wolf -- Understanding animality -- "Childhoodnature" and "after childhood" -- Animals in animation -- Visual and musical depictions of animality -- Companionship, playfulness, humor, and death -- Developing childhoodnature encounters and celebrating animality -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Primary sources -- Chapter 5 Childhood and its afterlives -- The spectral turn -- Children's literature without binaries? -- "Poor little half-and-half (…) You will be a Betwixt-and-Between" (Barrie: 121) -- He escaped, but his shadow hadn't time to get out (Barrie: 214) -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Cluster 2 Relational approaches in empirical research on children's cultures -- Chapter 6 Enacting the tween news viewer -- Conceptual framework -- Methodological framework.

Enactments of the tween news viewer -- Between text and viewers -- Concluding discussion -- References -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 7 Dynamics of age and power in a children's literature research assemblage -- New materialism and power -- Age and power in children's literature -- Shaping the interviews -- Negotiations of age and power in the research assemblage -- Age, characters, and power -- Closing thoughts and future potential -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 8 Research with children, weeds, and a book -- The encounter with the weeds -- The art of attentiveness -- In the shadow of the child -- Zooming in on the weeds -- Children-weeds-book entanglements -- Stories we tell through research matter -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 9 Fabric with feeling -- Touchstones for thought -- Memory and narrativization -- Transitive relations and criss-crossing modalities -- A return to touchstones -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Cluster 3 After-children's culture studies -- Chapter 10 Down the back of a chair -- From the margins -- Critique of "the child" and "childhood" -- Limitations of contemporary conceptualizations for our doings on/for/with children -- Challenging contemporary approaches to childhood literacy -- Taking up the invitation for child agency -- Posthumanist approaches to researching with child, book, and more-than-human assemblages -- Scrabbling inside the book -- The mattering of books -- Researching-with nonhuman others -- parasitic-others -- An un-ending-ness to our scrabbling methodology -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 11 Weird readings and little machines -- Affective affordances of the assemblage -- Engagement as an affect that produces children as readers.

Is it possible to be a child without being a reader? -- Picturebooks and (dis)engaged encounters -- The limits of the reading assemblage -- Weird readings -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 12 Literature and culture studies in classrooms -- 1953 -- 2002 -- 2021 -- "Re-turning" the story through "post" concepts -- Thinking-with and remaking the poetry story -- The minor gesture as the giving of speech -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Afterword -- Epistemological entanglements -- Questioning the theories -- Children's brains and children's texts -- Proceed with caution -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.