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Containing Childhood : Space and Identity in Children's Literature /
"Home. School. Nature. The spaces children occupy, both physically and imaginatively, are never neutral. Instead, they carry social, cultural, and political histories that impose-or attempt to impose-behavioral expectations. Moreover, the spaces identified with childhood reflect and reveal adul...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2022.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction. Contested territory: the spatialization of children's literature
- Negotiating boundaries: liminality, adolescence, and spatial agency. The open gates of Eden: uncontainable adolescence in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials / Kathleen Kellett ; Empowering girls: the liminal spaces of schools in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature for girls / Sonya Sawyer Fritz and Miranda A. Green-Barteet ; "There's no place like home": dystopian depictions of home in The Giver quartet and the Unwind dystology / Danielle Russell
- (Re)active engagement: childhood forays into the production of space. Taking it to the streets: production of space in Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy / Richardine Woodall ; Race and space in Daniel Jose Older's Shadowshaper / Cristina Rivera and Andrew Trevarrow ; The wide, starlit sky: childhood space and changing identity in the work of Laura Ingalls Wilder / Joyce McPherson
- Transformative acts: creating resistant spaces in institutionalized places. Proud to be a Rugby boy? The shifting relation between school space and student bodies in Tom Brown's Schooldays and The Loom of Youth / Anah-Jayne Samuelson ; "An elaborate cover": staging identities at school and abroad in Robert Stevens's murder mysteries / Rebecca Mills and Andrew McInnes ; Space, identity, and voice: Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give / Wendy Rountree
- Conclusion as inclusion.