Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture

New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-23033-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping relationships between children, pets, and adults inform the wide range of essays included in this collection, as they explore issues such as protection, discipline, mastery, wildness, play, and domestication. The volume use the frequent social and cultural intersections between children and pets as an opportunity to analyze institutions that create pet and child subjectivity, from education and training to putting children and pets on display for entertainment purposes. Essays analyze legal discourses, visual culture, literature for children and adults, migration narratives, magazines for children, music, and language socialization to discuss how notions of nationalism, race, gender, heteronormativity, and speciesism shape cultural constructions of children and pets. Examining childhood and pethood in America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, this collection shows how discourses linking children and pets are pervasive and work across cultures. By presenting innovative approaches to the child and the pet, the book brings to light alternative paths toward understanding these figures, leading to new openings and questions about kinship, agency, and the power of care that so often shapes our relationships with children and animals. This will be an important volume for scholars of animal studies, childhood studies, children’s literature, cultural studies, political theory, education, art history, and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feuerstein, Anna

Nolte-Odhiambo, Carmen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1: Monica Flegel’s preface discusses the collection’s contribution to animal studies

Preface 2: Kenneth Kidd’s preface addresses the collection’s contribution to childhood studies

Introduction: Why Children and Pets? Cultural, Political, and Historical Alignments of Childhood and Pethood Anna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo

Part I. Society, Socialization, and the Nation

1. Custody, Adoption, Protection: Contested Institutional Representations of Pets as Children James Gillett

2. Transgressing the ‘Luggage’ Metaphor: Children and Pets as Migrants in the Context of Contemporary International Mobility from Poland to Norway Justyna Struzik, Paula Pustulka, and Ewelina Ciaputa

3. Black Children as Pets in Eighteenth-Century European Courts Michèle Bocquillon

4. Who Needs Protection and Discipline? Children, Pets, and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman and Turkish Lands Melis Sulos

5. Bird Songs for Children, the Rhetoric of Conservation, and Voicing the Bird in the United States, 1900-1930 Katheryn Lawson

6. Pets as Vehicles of Language Socialization: Encouraging Children’s Emotional, Moral, and Relational Development in Japanese Matthew Burdelski

Part II. Fantasy, Visual Culture, and Wild(er)ness

7. Pullman, Pets and Posthuman Animals: The Daemon-child of His Dark Materials Zoe Jaques

8. ‘The Values of Savagery’: Pathologies of Child and Pet Play in Avant-Garde Visual Culture Victoria de Rijke

9. Domesticating Dorothy: Toto’s Role in Constructing Childhood in The Wizard of Oz and its Retellings Caryn Lesuma

10. Mr. Dog Is a Conservative: Representations of Children and/as Animals in Little Golden Books Kelly Hübben

11. The Best Friend: Exploring Power Relations of the Child-Pet Co-Construction in Children’s TV Programs Åsa Pettersson

12. ‘Oh, God, Give Me Horses!’: Sexuality, Transition, and Pony-Mad Girls Amalya Layla Ashman

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Feuerstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai’i – Manoa, USA.

Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu, USA.