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Child as Citizen : Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture / edited by Giuliana Fenech.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature--History and criticism.
- Children's literature.
- Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
- Children in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University press of Mississippi, [2025]
- Contents:
- Cover
- CHILD AS CITIZEN
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Agency, Activism, and Citizenship in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture
- Part I. The Urgent Need for Care-full Activism: An Author, Activist, and Academic's Perspective
- Chapter 1: "Do You Think You'll Ever Write a Real Book?" Troubled Children and the Trouble with Writing for Children in 2022
- Chapter 2: A Human Rights Practitioner's Perspective: How Children's Literature Can Support Their Rights to Justice, Dignity, and Voice
- Chapter 3: Labors of Care: A Proposition of a Care-full Children's Culture Studies
- Part II. Literary Agency and a Recasting of Equitable Child Citizenship
- Chapter 4: Relational Agency, Children's Literature, and Childhood
- Chapter 5: Resisting Eugenic Legacies: Child Agency in Protecting Disabled Citizenship in Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Chapter 6: From Ageism to Agency: Generation Z Authors as Inevitable Activists
- Part III. Childhood Ecologies and the Agency to Act and Heal
- Chapter 7: Shifting Boundaries: Objects, Narratives, and Nonhuman Entities as a Means Toward Agency in Narratives on Child Abuse and Neglect
- Chapter 8: Ecological Education in Twenty-First-Century Children's Literature About the Holocaust: A Comparative Ecocritical Reading
- Chapter 9: Roots of Rebellion: An Ecofeminist Reading of Citizenship and Climate Activism in Adolescent Fiction
- Part IV. Systemic Agency and Sites of Recognition and Engagement
- Chapter 10: Reading of What Is Yet to Come: Anthropocentric Children's Literature and Childhood Agency
- Chapter 11: Can You Hear My Voice? Participatory Research as a Method for Reclaiming Children's Agency in the Archive
- Chapter 12: Exploring the Museum at Night: Young People's Agency and Citizenship in Museum-Related Children's Literature and Programming
- Chapter 13: Young Adult Agency on BookTok: A Practice Theory Inquiry into Young Readers' Active Reshaping of Digital Literary Criticism on TikTok
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781496858450
- 149685845X
- 1496858433
- 9781496858436
- Publisher Number:
- 40032876774
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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