Risky Business: Talking about Children in Children’s Literature Criticism

Gubar, Marah

doi:10.1353/chq.2013.0048

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“…Her attempt to understand why an adult might write a book like My Name is Mina was unique because it involved her creatively drawing on and repurposing her own literary and lived experiences to interpret adult desires and motivation as different but related to her own. In doing so she unconsciously ascribed to Gubar's (2013) kinship model of discourse that understands children and adults to be separated by degrees of difference rather than by absolute difference. I am aware that in many ways the critical perspectives that I have drawn together are widely accepted within their separate fields.…”

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“It’s Not Just Writing”: Negotiating Childness in Children’s Literature Through Performance

Tandoi

2019

Child Lit Educ

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This article reflects on insights gained from a larger study that explored how a class of ten to eleven-year olds read and responded to David Almond's hybrid novel, My Name is Mina. Through focusing on the children's performances of the poems contained within the text the discussion examines embodied aspects of the children's engagement and suggests that these play a critical role in their shared readership. The implications of this analysis are considered in relation to Peter Hollindale's definition of 'childness' and it is argued that a closer analysis of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale reveals tensions inherent between linguistic constructions of childness within the text and embodied performances on stage. Drawing on critical perspectives from children's literature theory and research conducted on classroom dialogue, the article argues that children make use of their social and physical positioning to engage in fictive negotiations of childness and adultness and, in so doing, co-create the aesthetic experience that we refer to as children's literature.

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“It’s Not Just Writing”: Negotiating Childness in Children’s Literature Through Performance

Tandoi

2019

Child Lit Educ

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“…Marah Gubar notes the disciplinary "assumption that children and adults are categorically different from one another: adults are involved in the production of children's literature; children are not." 2 The same could be said for the scholarship and archival collecting of children's literature. Even for Dr. de Grummond, collecting was prioritized over children.…”

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The Impossible Child Scholar: Crafting a Digital Exhibit with the Kerlan’s Melissa Sweet Collection

Midkiff¹

2016

CAL

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In this article, I offer my experience with crafting a digital exhibit as one method of increasing children’s access to archived children’s literature materials. In spring 2015, I was enlisted by Lisa Von Drasek, curator of The Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota, to select and arrange the archival materials for Melissa Sweet’s award-winning Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade into a digital exhibit.

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“…I forlaengelse heraf vil jeg praesentere et perspektiv, som tager udgangspunkt i laeserens interaktion med litteratur. Dernaest vil jeg diskutere markante positioner i nyere forskning omkring børnelitteratur og barndom, saerligt den amerikanske litteraturforsker Marah Gubars såkaldte 'kinship-model', der laegger vaegt på faellestraekkene mellem barn og voksen frem for at fokusere på forskelle eller på barndom som en mangeltilstand (Gubar 2013). Hermed traekker artiklen på den del af litteraturforskningen, der undersøger forholdet mellem litteratur og medium, samt på intermedialitets-, børnelitteratur-og barndomsforskning.…”

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Overgange. Børne- og ungdomslitteratur og barndomsopfattelser i bevægelse

Christensen¹

2016

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“Transitions. Children’s Literature and Young Adult Fiction on the Move”The article gives an overview of current changes and tendencies within children’s literature and young adult fiction, as well as the research related to this field. Until recently, the book was considered the primary medium for literature for children, but the production of narratives that move across media is expanding. This calls for approaches that take the interaction of sound, image, verbal text and medium into consideration. Today, children and young people are considered individuals with agency, with the right and opportunity to influence their own situation, and this has led to an increasing interest in children’s use and production of texts. The article discusses aspects of this development, links it to a historical framework, and proposes a model that focuses on the interaction between different modes of expressions, media, producers and readers. In continuation of this, the article debates approaches to childhood within children’s literature studies, in particular the ‘kinship model’ proposed by Marah Gubar. This model suggests a focus on the continuum and the similarities between children and adults, instead of an approach to children that stresses their deficits or the differences between children and adults. The article concludes that the increasing interaction between children’s books and other media calls for interaction between children’s literature studies and media studies, and that many aspects point to a need for viewing the child as an active agent in the use and production of texts.

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Risky Business: Talking about Children in Children’s Literature Criticism

Cited by 119 publications

References 18 publications

“It’s Not Just Writing”: Negotiating Childness in Children’s Literature Through Performance

“It’s Not Just Writing”: Negotiating Childness in Children’s Literature Through Performance

The Impossible Child Scholar: Crafting a Digital Exhibit with the Kerlan’s Melissa Sweet Collection

Overgange. Børne- og ungdomslitteratur og barndomsopfattelser i bevægelse

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