Misfit Children

An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings
Herausgeber: Bohlmann, Markus

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays turns to misfit children as those found in-between socio-cultural, psychological and physical realms. It explores both the possibilities and futilities of negotiating this in-betweenness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781498525794
• ISBN-10: 1498525792
• Artikelnr.: 46005752

Autorenporträt

Edited by Markus Bohlmann - Contributions by Jessica Balanzategui; De-Valera N.Y.M Botchway; Daniel Butler; Danette DiMarco; Julian Gill-Peterson; Ann Gonzalez; Stephen Hartman; Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; Mark Heimermann; Naja Later; Craig Martin; Sean Mo

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Markus P. J. Bohlmann
Chapter 1 - Maria C. Schwenk, "Lost in Limbo: Children in Puritan New
England"
Chapter 2 - Sean Moreland, "Misfit Morella: The Sources and Influences of
Poe's Possessed-Child Narrative"
Chapter 3 - Craig Martin and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, "Fostering Evil:
Adoption Stigma and the Monster Child in Film"
Chapter 4 - Daniel G. Butler and Stephen Hartman, "'This is How You Look':
Mimicry as Defense of the Actual (or Hidden) Child in Sandor Ferenczi's
Psychoanalysis"
Chapter 5 - Jessica Balanzategui and Naja Later, "'Dark and Wicked Things':
The Slender Man, Tween Girlhood, and Deadly Liminalities"
Chapter 6 - Mark Heimermann, "Grotesque Adolescence in Charles Burns' Black
Hole"
Chapter 7 - Danette DiMarco, "Phototextuality and Racial Time in Ransom
Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"
Chapter 8 - Christopher Parkes, "The Child Prodigy Ages Out: White Male
Privilege as Trauma in John Green's An Abundance of Katherines and The
Fault in Our Stars"
Chapter 9 - Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, "Disidentifying with Futurity: The
Unbecoming Child and its Discontents"
Chapter 10 - Ann González, "The Postcolonial Double-Bind in Latin America:
Cesar Vallejo's 'Paco Yunque'"
Chapter 11 - Awo Sarpong and De-Valeria Botchway, "Freaks in Procession?
The Fancy Dress Masquerade as Haven for Negotiating Eccentricity during
Childhood. A Study of Child Masqueraders in Cape Coast, Ghana"
Chapter 12 - Andrew Pump, "Queer Kids: Innocence, Beauty, and Stupidity in
an Ideological State Apparatus"
Chapter 13 - Julian Gill-Peterson, "Growing Up Trans in the 1960s and
2010s"
Chapter 14 - Derek Newman-Stille, "Our Bodily Diverse Children Are Our
Future: Disability, Apocalypse, and Camille Alexa's All Them Pretty Babies"