Research Catalog

Title

The embodied child : readings in children's literature and culture / edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harde, Roxanne
• Kokkola, Lydia, 1967-

Description

ix, 280 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Children's Literature and Culture

Uniform Title

Children's literature and culture.

Subject

• Children's literature > History and criticism
• Children in literature
• Human body in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The embodied child: an introduction / Lydia Kokkola -- Anne's body has a mind (and soul) of its own: embodiment and the Cartesian legacy in Anne of Green Gables / Janet Wesselius -- Section I. Politicizations. Learning not to hate what we are: black power, literature, and the black child / Karen Sands-O'Connor -- "It's my skin that's paid most dearly": Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian body / Roxanne Harde -- Invisibility and (dis)embodiment in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours / Heather Braun -- Kitchens and edges: The politics of hair in African American children's picture books / Michelle Martin and Rachelle Washington.
• Section II. Corporealities. Disciplining normalcy: what Katy did and nineteenth-century female bodies / Julie Pfeiffer and Darla Schumm -- Embodying the healthy, charitable child in the junior Red Cross / Kristine Moruzi -- Liberty in the age of eugenics: non-normative bodies in Fabian Socialist children's fiction / Amanda Hollander.
• Section III. Reading bodies. "My story starts right here": the embodied identities of Blackfoot readers / Erin Spring -- A feeling connection: embodied flourishings as represented in contemporary picturebooks / Adrielle Britten -- The child's reading body / Margaret Mackey -- Hands on reading: the body, the brain, and the book / Lydia Kokkola.
• Section IV. Commodifications. "Little cooks": food and the disciplined body in nineteenth-century stories for girls / Samantha Christensen and Roxanne Harde -- Break dancing: reading the ballerina in To Dance / Jennifer M. Miskec -- Embodied performances by lesbian cheerleaders and dancers in Glee and Leading Ladies / Kate Norbury -- "A dolla makes her holla": Honey Boo Boo and the collaborative gaze of the twenty-first century knowing child / Lance Weldy.

Call Number

JFE 18-591

ISBN

• 9781138081567
• 1138081566

LCCN

2017020103

OCLC

973905909

Title

The embodied child : readings in children's literature and culture / edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Children's Literature and Culture

Children's literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harde, Roxanne, editor.

Kokkola, Lydia, 1967- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-591