The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction

Rose, Jacqueline

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“…Literary scholars have long debated over how to define children's and young adult fiction, based on, for example, its central characteristics, authorial intention, and implied readership (Rose 1984;Nodelman 2008). Literary scholars have long debated over how to define children's and young adult fiction, based on, for example, its central characteristics, authorial intention, and implied readership (Rose 1984;Nodelman 2008).…”

Section: Defining Key Termsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identities and Subjectivities

Worth¹,

Dwyer²,

Skelton³

2016

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Geographies of Children and Young People is a Major Reference Work comprising 12 volumes that pulls together the best international reflective and innovative scholarship focusing on younger people. Volumes 1 and 2 establish and critically engage with the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological groundings of this geographical sub-discipline. Volumes 3-11 provide in depth thematic analysis of key topical areas pertinent to children's and young people's lives: space, place and environment; identities and subjectivities; families and peer groups; movement and mobilities; politics and citizenship; global issues and change; play and well-being; learning and labouring; conflict and peace. Volume 12 connects both academic, policy, and practitioner based work around protection and provision.

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Section: Defining Key Termsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identities and Subjectivities

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Skelton³

2016

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“…Instead, the distinction revolved around the status of books for girls versus those for boys. Adventure stories became defined as a literary genre for juveniles, for father and son, while the domestic tales remained fit for babies and children, for girls (Rose, 1984).…”

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“…The creation of texts that met the needs and interests of the gendered child illustrates the demarcation and ongoing cultural invention of Western childhood as a unique state (e.g., Ariès, 1962;Lesko, 2001). Rose (1984) proposed that "There is no child behind the category 'children's fiction,' other than the child the category itself sets in place, the one which it needs to believe is there for its own purposes" (p. 10). Somewhat surprisingly, the creation of distinct reading materials for boys and girls also reveals a preoccupation with children's sexuality.…”

Section: Inventing Gendered Childhoodsmentioning

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Stripping for the wolf: Rethinking representations of gender in children's literature

Marshall

2004

Reading Research Quarterly

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S This essay seeks to broaden theoretical paradigms commonly used in the social sciences to analyze representations of gender, especially girlhood, in children's literature. In particular, this project seeks to add to liberal feminist frameworks for conceptualizing textual representations of gender and sexuality in literacy studies. Liberal feminisms theorize gender through the lens of sex‐role theory, a paradigm in which social roles are allocated to men and to women on the basis of biological sex. The author acknowledges this important theoretical tradition, which brings attention to sex‐role stereotypes in children's literature, and approaches the topic of gender representation from another perspective. Drawing on feminist and literary theories informed by poststructuralism, the author analyzes how discourses of femininity produce the contested subjectivity of the “girl.” Through a textual analysis of four variants of “Little Red Riding Hood,” the author illustrates how poststructural feminist literary theory allows for a reading of the girl as less a natural category than as the product of evolving, culturally situated, and contradictory discourses. In this wayanother possible direction for analyzing gender in children's literature is offered.

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“…In considering the politics of Gollancz's war child photography this article draws on Jacqueline Rose's theories of the construction of the child put forward in The Case of Peter Pan, or, The Impossibility of Children's Fiction, particularly the idea that '[t]he innocence of the photograph as a record or document seems to vouch for the innocence of our pleasure in looking, and no more so perhaps than when what we are looking at is a child'. 9 to give access to the truth and elides the text in which it is produced. As this article will argue, whilst Gollancz's book engages with photography as construction, it does not extend its consideration of construction to the war child that it claims to retrieve.…”

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REPRESENTING AND REPETITION: VICTOR GOLLANCZ'S IN DARKEST GERMANY AND THE METONYMY OF SHOES

Medhurst

2016

German Life and Letters

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Victor Gollancz's book, In Darkest Germany (1947), is compiled from letters written and photographs taken during his six‐week visit to the British Zone of Occupation in 1946, and provides a counter to the official British political narrative about the occupation of Germany. This article examines Gollancz's text in the light of more recent theories of photography and of childhood as constructions in order to address his claim that photography is at ‘a long remove’ from what he saw in post‐war Germany, and to discuss the implications this has for our understanding of the German war child. It situates close readings of Gollancz's writing about photography and photographs of ‘[s]chool children's shoes in Hamburg and Düsseldorf’ within the wider contexts of his socialism and the metonymy of children's shoes in post‐war Germany, in order to argue that he engages with sophisticated theoretical ideas about the insufficiency of photography and language as means of retrieving a lived reality in pursuance of his efforts to engage a politically apathetic public. The repetitiveness of his photographs of children's shoes positions them as standing in for the situation of German children generally in the aftermath of World War II, with the aim of making these conditions comprehensible to the British public. Underpinning the repetition is the representation of the war child, which seems to escape the issues of photography that Gollancz discusses but which ultimately confirms them. Das Buch In Darkest Germany (1947) von Victor Gollancz enthält Briefe und Fotografien, die 1946 während Gollanczs sechswöchiger Reise durch die britische Besatzungszone entstanden; es bietet einen Gegendiskurs zum offiziellen britischen Diskurs über die Besatzung Deutschlands. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert Gollanczs Text mit Hilfe neuerer Theorien zum Konstruktionscharakter von Fotografie und Kindheit, um die Implikationen von Gollanczs Einsicht, die Fotografie sei ‘weit entfernt’ von dem, was er im Nachkriegsdeutschland gesehen habe, für unser Verständnis des deutschen Kriegskindes zu erhellen. Der Aufsatz stellt die Analyse von Gollanczs Äußerungen über den Repräsentationscharakter von Fotografie in den Kontext seiner sozialistischen Ideale. Dabei wird argumentiert, dass Gollancz sich auf eine komplexe theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit der Unzulänglichkeit von Fotografie und Sprache, das historisch Tatsächliche zu erfassen, einlässt, während er gleichzeitig eine politisch desinteressierte Öffentlichkeit mit seiner Arbeit aufrütteln will. Der Wiederholungscharakter seiner Fotografien von Kinderschuhen positioniert diese als Repräsentation der Lebensbedingungen deutscher Kinder in der Nachkriegszeit, um diese Verhältnisse der britischen Öffentlichkeit verständlich zu machen. Die Darstellung des Kriegskindes scheint von den Fragen, die Gollancz anhand der Fotografien diskutiert, zunächst nicht betroffen, wird jedoch von diesen eingeholt.

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The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction

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