"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 un...

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1. Verfasser:	Price, Danielle E. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Routledge 2024
Ausgabe:	First published
Schriftenreihe:	Children's literature and culture
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 2000-2023 Sprechen > Motiv Jugendliteratur Kinderliteratur Stille > Motiv Schweigen > Motiv 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
Zusammenfassung:	"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"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	ix, 190 Seiten 23,5 cm
ISBN:	9781032038360 9781032038384