The embodied child : readings in children' s literature and culture /
edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola.
- 1 online resource (ix, 269 pages) : illustrations
- Children's Literature and Culture .
Chapter The Embodied Child -- An Introduction / chapter 1 Anne's Body Has a Mind (and Soul) of Its Own -- Embodiment and the Cartesian Legacy in Anne of Green Gables / part I Politicizations -- chapter 2 Learning Not to Hate What We Are -- Black Power, Literature, and the Black Child / chapter 3?[I]t's my skin that's paid most dearly? -- Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian Body / chapter 4 Invisibility and (Dis)Embodiment in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours / chapter 5 Kitchens and Edges -- The Politics of Hair in African American Children's Picturebooks / part II Corporealities -- chapter 6 Disciplining Normalcy -- What Katy Did and Nineteenth-Century Female Bodies / chapter 7 Embodying the Healthy, Charitable Child in the Junior Red Cross / chapter 8 Liberty in the Age of Eugenics -- Non-Normative Bodies in Fabian Socialist Children's Fiction / part III Reading Bodies -- chapter 9?My story starts right here? -- The Embodied Identities of Blackfoot Readers / chapter 10 A Feeling Connection -- Embodied Flourishing as Represented in Contemporary Picturebooks / chapter 11 The Child's Reading Body / chapter 12 Hands on Reading -- The Body, the Brain, and the Book / part IV Commodifications -- chapter 13?Little cooks? -- Food and the Disciplined Body in Nineteenth-Century Stories for Girls / chapter 14 Break Dancing -- Reading the Ballerina in To Dance / chapter 15 Embodied Performances by Lesbian Cheerleaders and Dancers in Glee and Leading Ladies / chapter 16?A dolla makes her holla? -- Honey Boo Boo and the Collaborative Gaze of the Twenty-First-Century Knowing Child / Lydia Kokkola -- Janet Wesselius -- Karen Sands-O'Connor -- Roxanne Harde -- Heather Braun -- Michelle H. Martin -- Julie Pfeiffer -- Kristine Moruzi -- Amanda Hollander -- Erin Spring -- Adrielle Britten -- Margaret Mackey -- Lydia Kokkola -- Samantha Christensen -- Jennifer M. Miskec -- Kate Norbury -- Lance Weldy.
"The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children's bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the impact they have on society, and how the child's body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They also consider the portrayal of children's bodies in terms of the seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child."--Provided by publisher