City of toys : essays / Lesley Jenike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenike, Lesley, Author.

Series:

21st century essays http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/10902701-92c8-5c07-2da4-3902847a412d

21st century essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jenike, Lesley.

Motherhood.

Children.

maternity.

childhood.

Mother and child.

Motherhood--Social aspects.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 266 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Combines personal moments with cultural criticism to examine childhood and mothering as well as larger questions around how childhood is constructed by culture makers, how artists and writers have made sense of childhood, and how American culture will influence what our children will someday become"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lavender : an overture. I. Puppets, doll babies, automatons. Stargate ; Maybe it’s just show biz ; Calliope ; The teaching emotion ; Enter time, the chorus

II. Enfant terribles, prodigies, old souls. The birthmark ; The positioning field ; Black heart ; Exit, pursued by a bear ; It’s a story, I just didn’t realize it

III. Fairies, shape-shifters, will o’-the-wisps. You figure it out ; Be whole in me now here ; Go hide and I’ll count to ten ; The pupil ; The Cottingley Fairies, revisited (a mostly-fiction) ; The haunting of ill house ; The goodbye door

IV. Artifacts, artworks, and other playthings. In the again time ; Wunderkammer ; Hearth goddess and hollow on the inside ; Make the best of an emergency ; The moribund, or salacious fragments of a rather regular life made of weather and stuff and walks and tasks

Coda: An alary breviary.

Other Format:

Online version: Jenike, Lesley. City of toys.

ISBN:

9780814259757

0814259758

OCLC:

1558592750

Publisher Number:

CIPO000342193