Producing Children

Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity

AvPeter C. Kunze,Victoria Ford Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revising the long-established, hierarchical relation between adults and children. The chapters in this collection reveal that studying child-produced culture complicates our received understandings of children’s culture as culture by adults, for children, about children. They also underscore “children’s literature” as a cultural phenomenon that moves across and beyond genres, forms, and media. As a whole, this collection reveals that attention to child-produced culture invites dialogue and collaboration across fields and disciplines invested in the critical understanding of children as embodied beings and childhood as both a stage of development and discursive construct with social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions and influence. With the ongoing vibrancy of childhood studies as a multidisciplinary area of inquiry, studies of child-produced culture provide scholars with an exciting opportunity to complicate, enrich, and expand theorization of childhood creativity, children’s culture, and even children themselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-15
Mått:156 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9781978842311

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PETER C. KUNZE is an assistant professor of communication at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the author of Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance (Rutgers University Press).VICTORIA FORD SMITH is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. She is the author of Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature.

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"A welcome and eye-opening collection of richly contextualized, multidisciplinary studies that push us to think more seriously about children as cultural producers. This timely anthology moves forward in exciting ways important conversations about children's cultural agency, creativity, and collaborations with adults." - Mary Celeste Kearney (author of Girls Make Media) "Producing Children brings together rich, interdisciplinary perspectives to offer fresh insight on children's role in cultural production. The case studies explored in this collection reinforce the urgency of centering children's voices, experiences, and agency in how we understand the definitions and operations of culture." - Ashleigh Greene Wade (author of Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction PETER C. KUNZE AND VICTORIA FORD SMITH PART ONEAuthorship 1 Daisy Ashford and the Child Writer’s Use of ScaleKATHARINE SLATER 2 “I didn’t die and felt the Earth”: Nature and the Urgency of Perception for Young Black Poets in The Voice of the Children WorkshopRACHEL CONRAD 3 Representations of Youth Environmental Activism and Agency in Aika Tsubota’s Secrets of the EarthBRIANNA ANDERSON PART TWOPerformance and Play 4 Phillis Wheatley’s Image and the Creative Black ChildBRIGITTE FIELDER 5 “When he saw the pencil put to paper”: The Meaning-Making of Children’s Language in Depression-Era HarlemMAGGIE E. MORRIS DAVIS 6 Creative Testimonio as Activism: A Case Study of Sophie Cruz and Sarai GonzalezCRISTINA RHODES 7 Acting Up: Child Actors as Authors and Collaborators in Contemporary World CinemaPETER C. KUNZE PART THREECollaboration and Cocreation 8 “Mostly Written By”: A Cookbook Model for Reading Children’s ArtIVY LINTON STABELL 9 Negotiating Nightmares: Improvising with Children in Arthur Tress’s The Dream CollectorVICTORIA FORD SMITH 10 Choreographing Kinship: The Adult-Child Pas de Deux in Day on Earth and LineageMARAH GUBAR 11 Charli, Charlie, and Me: An Autoethnographic Study of TikTok Dance and Child/Adult CollaborationsTREVOR BOFFONE Notes on ContributorsIndex