Research Catalog

Title

Animality and children's literature and film / Amy Ratelle.

Author

Ratelle, Amy

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Description

viii, 171 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Over the past decade, animal/child relations have become the central focus of children's and young adult studies. Scholars to date, however, have continued to read the animal as a symbol of the human, or as a medium authors have used for didactic ends. This common assumption has resulted in framework that has ignored the rights and agency of not only animals, but children themselves. Children are asked both implicitly and explicitly to identify with animals, but then to position themselves as distinctly human through the mode of their interactions with both lived animals and those depicted in literature and film. By examining culturally significant and widely popular works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to configure human identity. Animality and Children's Literature and Film explores the question of identity formation - child/adult, animal/human - and investigates the overlapping, double-sided rhetorics addressing children, childhood and animals. In her analysis, Amy Ratelle draws upon popular and beloved children's texts, from Black Beauty and Charlotte's Web to contemporary films to reflect on the ways in which literature geared toward a child audience reflects and contributes to the cultural tensions created by the oscillation between upholding and undermining the divisions between the human and the animal"--

Series Statement

Critical approaches to children's literature

Uniform Title

Critical approaches to children's literature.

Subject

• Children's literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Animals in literature
• Children in literature
• Animals in motion pictures
• Children in motion pictures
• Human-animal relationships in literature
• Anthropomorphism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. Animal Virtues, Values and Rights2. Contact Zones, Becoming, and the Wild Animal Body3. Ethics and Edibility4. Science, Species and Subjectivity5. Performance and Personhood in Free Willy and Dolphin TaleConclusionEnd NotesWorks CitedIndex.

Call Number

JFD 15-192

ISBN

• 9781137373151
• 1137373156

LCCN

2014021124

OCLC

898051081

Author

Ratelle, Amy, author.

Title

Animality and children's literature and film / Amy Ratelle.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical approaches to children's literature

Critical approaches to children's literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-192