Misfit Children

Markus P. J. Bohlmann is professor of English at Seneca College.

Misfit Children is a fantastic new addition to the scholarship on childhood and various forms of non-conformity. There 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.

• Introduction - Markus P. J. BohlmannChapter 1 - Maria C. Schwenk, “Lost in Limbo: Children in Puritan New England”Chapter 2 - Sean Moreland, “Misfit Morella: The Sources and Influences of Poe’s Possessed-Child Narrative”Chapter 3 - Craig Martin and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, “Fostering Evil: Adoption Stigma and the Monster Child in Film”Chapter 4 - Daniel G. Butler and Stephen Hartman, “‘This is How You Look’: Mimicry as Defense of the Actual (or Hidden) Child in Sandor Ferenczi’s Psychoanalysis”Chapter 5 - Jessica Balanzategui and Naja Later, “‘Dark and Wicked Things’: The Slender Man, Tween Girlhood, and Deadly Liminalities”Chapter 6 - Mark Heimermann, “Grotesque Adolescence in Charles Burns’ Black Hole”Chapter 7 - Danette DiMarco, “Phototextuality and Racial Time in Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”Chapter 8 - Christopher Parkes, “The Child Prodigy Ages Out: White Male Privilege as Trauma in John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines and The Fault in Our Stars”Chapter 9 - Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, “Disidentifying with Futurity: The Unbecoming Child and its Discontents”Chapter 10 - Ann González, “The Postcolonial Double-Bind in Latin America: Cesar Vallejo’s ‘Paco Yunque’”Chapter 11 - Awo Sarpong and De-Valeria Botchway, “Freaks in Procession? The Fancy Dress Masquerade as Haven for Negotiating Eccentricity during Childhood. A Study of Child Masqueraders in Cape Coast, Ghana”Chapter 12 - Andrew Pump, “Queer Kids: Innocence, Beauty, and Stupidity in an Ideological State Apparatus”Chapter 13 - Julian Gill-Peterson, “Growing Up Trans in the 1960s and 2010s”Chapter 14 - Derek Newman-Stille, “Our Bodily Diverse Children Are Our Future: Disability, Apocalypse, and Camille Alexa’s All Them Pretty Babies”