The Borders of Empathy in Children's Fiction / Macarena García-González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García, Macarena (García González), author.

Series:

Children's literature and culture.

Children's Literature and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in literature.

Empathy in literature.

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Picture books for children--History.

Picture books for children.

Empathy in children.

Emotions in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction centres the question of how reading fiction develops our moral imagination and our capacities to think and feel with others. The question is approached with a good dose of scepticism, revising tensions between ethical, aesthetical, and pedagogical dimensions when certain books, films, and other cultural materials are recommended for children. This volume examines how texts addressed to children are meant to assist socioemotional education and whether we put forward adultist assumptions around such conceptualisations of the emotional. The book is organised into nine chapters, with some of them focusing on "difficult" themes — such as violence, xenophobia, death, migration, as well as gender and social exclusions— and some others on more general relationships between emotions, media, and education. The chapters combine a textual analysis of recommended cultural materials for children with insights from empirical research and ethnographic approaches to children’s cultures. A common thread throughout the book is the open question about the epistemic injustices in knowing children and childhood and how this may be overcome by shifting our research practices with posthumanist philosophies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-52222-X

1-04-035067-4

9781003522225

OCLC:

1517013395

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access Open access