The children's table : childhood studies and the humanities / edited by Anna Mae Duane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duane, Anna Mae, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Research.

Children.

Children--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]

Summary:

"This collection brings together an eclectic range of prominent scholars in architecture, education, history, law, literary criticism, and cultural studies to explore how the field of childhood studies questions some of the most basic tenets of humanities scholarship-and to consider how these questions can bridge disciplines. Each essay pairs childhood studies with another field of inquiry to ask explicitly how foregrounding the child reorients long-established scholarly foundations in that field. Childhood studies' insistence that we need to rethink the symbolic work of the child necessarily realigns a host of other fields that, often uncritically, draw upon the false dichotomy separating the vulnerable, dependent child from the allegedly independent and autonomous adult. By complicating our assumptions about the child, we are also providing a new way of thinking through some of the most basic tenets of the humanities. Anna Mae Duane notes that much of the exciting work in the humanities seeks to recover the voices of those who have been infantilized, including women, people of color, and the GLBT community. This volume features thirteen essays by leading scholars who reveal how childhood studies offers a vital methodological and theoretical roadmap for engaging issues that are among the most important and provocative in the humanities-the recovery of colonized voices, the definition of agency, the performance of identity, and the construction of gender and race, to name a few. Each of the essays seeks to understand how rhetorical views of childhood shape views of power, politics, knowledge, and sociality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Questioning the Autonomous Subject and Individual Rights 15

The Prepolitical Child of Child-Centered Jurisprudence / Annette Ruth Appell Appell, Annette Ruth 19

Childhood of the Race: A Critical Race Theory Intervention into Childhood Studies / Lucia Hodgson Hodgson, Lucia 38

Childhood Studies and History: Catching a Culture in High Relief / James Marten Marten, James 52

Childism: The Challenge of Childhood to Ethics and the Humanities / John Wall Wall, John 68

Part 2 Recalibrating the Work of Discipline 85

"So Wicked": Revisiting Uncle Tom's Cabin's Sentimental Racism through the Lens of the Child / Sophie Bell Bell, Sophie 89

Minority/Majority: Childhood Studies and Antebellum American Literature / Lesley Ginsberg Ginsberg, Lesley 105

The Architectures of Childhood / Roy Kozlovsky Kozlovsky, Roy 124

Part 3 Childhood Studies and the Queer Subject 145

"I Was a Lesbian Child": Queer Thoughts about Childhood Studies / Sarah Chinn Chinn, Sarah 149

Trans(cending)gender through Childhood / Susan Honeyman Honeyman, Susan 167

Childhood Studies and Literary Adoption / Carol Singley Singley, Carol 183

Part 4 Childhood Studies: Theory, Practice, Pasts, and Futures 199

Childhood as Performance / Robin Bernstein Bernstein, Robin 203

In the Archives of Childhood / Karen Sánchez-Eppler Sánchez-Eppler, Karen 213

Doing Childhood Studies: The View from Within / Lynne Vallone Vallone, Lynne 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820345215

0820345210

9780820345222

0820345229

OCLC:

819717615