Misfit Children by Naja Later
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa. This collection of essays on misfit children produces transmissible motions across and engages in scholarly conversations that unfold betwixt and between in order to make rigid concepts twist and twirl, and ultimately fail to fit.-
The Sidekick Comes of Age
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The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children's Books, Films, and Toys
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Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
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Tweencom Girls
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Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity
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Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850-1965
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Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
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The Americas Award
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The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature
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The Feeling Child
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New Directions in Childhood Studies
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Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny
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Growing up in Latin America
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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
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Indians in Victorian Children's Narratives
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Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
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The Child in World Cinema
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Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg
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Cold War Children's Television
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School Gun Violence in YA Literature
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Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television
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Childhood and Innocence in American Culture
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Beyond Nancy Drew
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Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Misfit Children is a fantastic new addition to the scholarship on childhood and various forms of non-conformityThere are none of the usual homilies about innocent children here, only an ever expanding archive of narratives, theories, and representations of the wonderful weirdness of the child and child worlds. -- Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure
A fun and lively volume on misfit kids of all sorts, from the outright monstrous to the gently peculiar. Contributors take up topics as diverse as kid masquerade dancers in Ghana, angsty white boy prodigies in the novels of John Green, Ferenczian psychoanalysis, Slenderman-attributed tween violence, and the medical normalization of transkids. An eclectic but essential contribution to childhood studies. -- Kenneth B. Kidd, University of Florida
A fun and lively volume on misfit kids of all sorts, from the outright monstrous to the gently peculiar. Contributors take up topics as diverse as kid masquerade dancers in Ghana, angsty white boy prodigies in the novels of John Green, Ferenczian psychoanalysis, Slenderman-attributed tween violence, and the medical normalization of transkids. An eclectic but essential contribution to childhood studies. -- Kenneth B. Kidd, University of Florida
Markus P. J. Bohlmann is professor of English at Seneca College.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781498525794 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498525792 |
| Title | Misfit Children |
| Author | Markus Bohlmann |
| Series | Children And Youth In Popular Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2016-12-14 |
| Number of pages | 290 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |