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Child as Citizen : Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture / edited by Giuliana Fenech.

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Book
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
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).
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ISBN:
9781496858450
149685845X
1496858433
9781496858436
Publisher Number:
40032876774
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