Roxanne Harde - The Embodied Child

The Embodied Child

The Embodied Child: Readings in Childrens Literature and Culture is an innovative and timely collection of essays that offers rich analyses of childrens bodies as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. In this ground-breaking work, editors Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola have brought together some of the most renown scholars in childhood studies who each delve into the complex ways children and their physical form are represented literature. Each chapter introduces readers to the subject through a distinctive lens, whether it be queer, racial, gendered, or those that are less often discussed, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child.

Roxanne Harde is Professor of English and Associate Dean (Research) at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta, Canada.

Lydia Kokkola is Head of English and Education at Lule University of Technology, Sweden.

Childrens Literature and Culture Jack Zipes, Founding Series Editor Philip Nel, Current Series Editor

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com.

New Directions in Childrens Gothic

Debatable Lands

Edited by Anna Jackson

More Words About Pictures

Current Research on Picture Books and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People

Edited by Perry Nodelman, Naomi Hamer, and Mavis Reimer

Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture

New Perspectives on Childhood Studies and Animal Studies

Edited by Anna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo

Origin Narratives

The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and Interracial Adoption

Macarena Garcia Gonzales

Italian Childrens Literature and National Identity

Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity

Maria Truglio

The Beloved Does Not Bite

Moral Vampires and the Humans Who Love Them

Debra Dudek

Affect, Emotion and Childrens Literature

Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults

Edited by Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith, and Elizabeth Bullen

The Embodied Child

Readings in Childrens Literature and Culture

Edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola

Edited by Roxanne Harde and
Lydia Kokkola

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To Bristol, the busiest little body a grandma could hope for.

Roxanne

In memory of my parents, Jean and David, whose bodies created my own.

Lydia

Assembling a collection is always a communal endeavor, but working on this one has felt particularly, even joyously, so. Conceived as we prepared for International Research Society for Childrens Literature (IRSCL) 2015 Creating Childhoods, constructed through collegial networks, and brought to fruition as we look toward IRSCL 2017 Possible & Impossible Children, The Embodied Child embodies the best of this organization and the field of childrens literature. Each of the scholars whose work appears in this volume is supported by communities, in our institutions, but also by our partners, families, friends, and colleagues. The result is a collection that is uniformly of the highest standards. We are grateful for the opportunity this collection provided to bring us into contact with such a dynamic group of researchers, and we thank our contributors for all their hard work and good humor.

We also wish to extend our gratitude to

Jean Webb who encouraged us to form a collection from the IRSCL Congress in Worcester.

Philip Nel who has been positive about this book from the start.

Roberta Seelinger Trites and the anonymous reviewers who helped raise the standard of the collection.

Jennifer Abbott, Veronica Haggar, and Sofia Buono, who carried the project through to production.

Tia Lalani for polishing the abstracts in ways we couldnt have imagined.

Our institutions: the University of Alberta and its Augustana Faculty which have supported Roxannes research with funding, a stellar and superbly staffed Library, and an administrative team that fosters this work. Lule University of Technology who offered Lydia opportunities worth emigrating for.

But most of all, we extend this work to you, our readers, as your body engages with the fruits of our labor.