Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture
Subtitle: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
By: Anna Feuerstein
Contributors: Nolte-Odhiambo, Carmen
Edition: First edition.
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781315386218
Subjects: Children in literature; Pets in literature; Animals in literature; Human-animal relationships in literature; Animaux familiers dans la littérature; Animaux dans la littérature; Relations homme-animal dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM; Subjects & Themes; Nature; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Children's Studies
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Title Page; title: Copyright Page; title: Contents; title: List of Figures; title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface 1: Children and Animal â#x80;#x9C;Petsâ#x80;#x9D;; title: Preface 2: On Childhood Studies and Human Exceptionalism; title: Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Childhood and Pethood; title: SECTION I: Family, Language, and Nationhood; title: 1 Adoption, Custody, and Protection: The Childhood of Pets as a Critique of Legal Classification Systems; title: 2 Transgressing the â#x80;#x9C;Luggageâ#x80;#x9D; Metaphor: Children and Pets as Migrants in the Context of Contemporary International Mobility from Poland to Norway3 Who Needs Protection and Discipline? Children, Pets, and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman and Turkish Lands; title: 4 Pets as Vehicles of Language Socialization: Encouraging Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s Emotional, Moral, and Relational Development in Japanese; title: 5 Moamahi Ä#x81; Puaâ#x80;#x98;a Moe Poli: NÄ#x81; Keiki a nÄ#x81; HÄ#x81;naiÄ#x81;huhu i ka Moâ#x80;#x98;omeheu Hawaiâ#x80;#x98;i (Cherished Chickens to Chest-cuddled Pigs: Children and Pets in Hawaiian Culture); title: SECTION II: Literature for Children and Adults6 Pullman, Pets, and Posthuman Animals: The DÃŒmon-child of His Dark Materials; title: 7 Domesticating Dorothy: Totoâ#x80;#x99;s Role in Constructing Childhood in The Wizard of Oz and Its Retellings; title: 8 Mister Dog Is a Conservative: Representations of Â Children and/as Animals in Three Little Golden Books; title: 9 â#x80;#x9C;Oh God, Give Me Horses!â#x80;#x9D; Pony-Mad Girls, Sexuality, and Pethood; title: 10 â#x80;#x9C;The cats are outside hangingâ#x80;#x9D;: Settler Colonialism, Racialized Animality, and Queer Kinship in Lois-Ann Yamanakaâ#x80;#x99;s Bluâ#x80;#x99;s Hanging; title: 11 Doomed Creatures: Children and Nonhuman Animals in Contemporary Southern African Fiction in EnglishSECTION III: Music and Visual Culture; title: 12 Bird Songs for Children, the Rhetoric of Conservation, and Voicing the Bird in the United States, 1900â#x80;#x93;30; title: 13 Black Children as Pets in Eighteenth-Century European Courts; title: 14 â#x80;#x9C;The Values of Savageryâ#x80;#x9D;: Pathologies of Child and Pet Play in Avant-Garde Visual Culture; title: 15 The Best Friend: Exploring the Power Relations of the Child-Pet Co-Construction in Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s TV Programs; title: List of Contributors