Contributor
Russell, Danielle, 1967- editor.
ImprintJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Descriptionviii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction. Contested territory: the spatialization of children's literature -- Negotiating boundaries: liminality, adolescence, and spatial agency. The open gates of Eden: uncontainable adolescence in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials / Kathleen Kellett ; Empowering girls: the liminal spaces of schools in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature for girls / Sonya Sawyer Fritz and Miranda A. Green-Barteet ; "There's no place like home": dystopian depictions of home in The Giver quartet and the Unwind dystology / Danielle Russell -- (Re)active engagement: childhood forays into the production of space. Taking it to the streets: production of space in Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy / Richardine Woodall ; Race and space in Daniel José Older's Shadowshaper / Cristina Rivera and Andrew Trevarrow ; The wide, starlit sky: childhood space and changing identity in the work of Laura Ingalls Wilder / Joyce McPherson -- Transformative acts: creating resistant spaces in institutionalized places. Proud to be a Rugby boy? The shifting relation between school space and student bodies in Tom Brown's Schooldays and The Loom of Youth / Anah-Jayne Samuelson ; "An elaborate cover": staging identities at school and abroad in Robert Stevens's murder mysteries / Rebecca Mills and Andrew McInnes ; Space, identity, and voice: Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give / Wendy Rountree -- Conclusion as inclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Home. School. Nature. The spaces children occupy, both physically and imaginatively, are never neutral. Instead, they carry social, cultural, and political histories that impose- or attempt to impose- behavioral expectations. Moreover, the spaces identified with childhood reflect and reveal adult expectations of where children "belong." The essays in Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children's Literature explore the multifaceted and dynamic nature of space, as well as the relationship between space and identity in children's literature. Contributors to the volume address such questions as: What is the nature of that relationship? What happens to the spaces associated with childhood over time? How do children conceptualize and lay claim to their own spaces? The book features essays on popular and lesser-known children's fiction from North America and Great Britain, including works like The Hate U Give, His Dark Materials, The Giver quartet, and Shadowshaper. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach in their analysis, contributors draw upon varied scholarly areas such as philosophy, race, class, and gender studies, among others. Without reducing the issues to any singular theory or perspective, each piece provides insight into specific treatments of space in specific periods of time, thereby affording scholars a greater appreciation of the diverse spatial patterns in children's literature."-- Provided by publisher.
