Producing Children: Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

By: Peter C. Kunze and Trevor Boffone and Marah Gubar and Rachel Conrad and Brigitte Fielder and Victoria Ford Smith and Katharine Slater and Brianna Anderson and Maggie E. Morris Davis and Cristina Rhodes and Ivy Linton Stabell

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781978842311
Related ISBNs:: 9781978842335
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 04/15/25
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Children's Books, Nonfiction, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Peter C. Kunze
Edited by:: Victoria Ford Smith