Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
Author: Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1498597394

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This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.

Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy

Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
Author: Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1498594301

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Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children’s agency, wherein children’s beings and becomings, rooted in childhood’s freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on children’s agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.

Children of the Light

Children of the Light
Author: Susan Weston
Publisher: Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1987-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780312903053

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By a time warp, Jeremy is taken into the future after a nuclear war.

Children of the Thunder

Children of the Thunder
Author: John Brunner
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Science writer Peter Levin and Claudia Morris, researcher in juvenile delinquency, discover a disturbing pattern of crimes in the rapidly deteriorating society of 1990s Britain.

Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature

Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Author: Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2023-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1538122928

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History is constantly evolving, and the history of children’s literature is no exception. Since the original publication of Emer O’Sullivan’s Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature in 2010, much has happened in the field of children’s literature. New authors have come into print, new books have won awards, and new ideas have entered the discourse within children’s literature studies. Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries. This book will be an excellent resource for students, scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in the field of children’s literature studies.

Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King

Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
Author: Debbie Olson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793600139

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This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to examine American culture, including both adult and social anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King’s works.

Growing up in Latin America

Growing up in Latin America
Author: Marco Ramírez Rojas
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2022-07-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1666916889

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Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.

Representing Agency in Popular Culture

Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Author: Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1498574955

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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.

Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television
Author: Debbie Olson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1666918687

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This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order.