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Powerful at all ages

Lindsey Geybels — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:31:46 +0000

The link between age and power has been studied from various perspectives in children’s literature. While some scholars mainly focus on the adult’s power, others discuss power on the child’s part, like Clémentine Beauvais, who argues that a child’s ‘might’ lies in the future that lies ahead of them. In his broader research project, Leander… Continue reading Powerful at all ages

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Also appropriate for adults

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:44:10 +0000

When Joke Van Leeuwen states that her books are for “starting and other humans”, she means that she writes her books with the belief that both children and adults can enjoy them. Rather than seeing children as “less developed” or “radically different”, the children’s book author believes in the kinship model (Gubar) – the idea that children… Continue reading Also appropriate for adults

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Perfectly imperfect mothers: breaking the “Good Mom Myth”

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:38:53 +0000

In western, contemporary societies, a woman is considered a “good mother” when she is at all times emotionally present and selfless, placing her children’s desires and needs before her own. Although this image of “good mothering” is often reproduced and thereby affirmed in children’s literature, so-called “alter-tales” – counterstories that voice different experiences of motherhood… Continue reading Perfectly imperfect mothers: breaking the “Good Mom Myth”

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Intergenerational friendship or desire?

Lindsey Geybels — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:50:22 +0000

Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock (1984) and Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) are two British novels that evoke an intense friendship between a girl and an older man. In this article, Vanessa Joosen explores their experimental narrative forms which include a complex chronology, unreliable narrator, dream scenes, gaps, and a rich intertextual network to frame an intergenerational friendship that… Continue reading Intergenerational friendship or desire?

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Encounters of a dreamy kind

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:05:58 +0000

Dreams can function in children’s books as a means to connect young characters and older figures in the story. In this article, Vanessa Joosen presents three methods to study intergenerational encounters in and through dreams in a selection of contemporary Dutch children’s books. She does this by means of a digital analysis of a corpus… Continue reading Encounters of a dreamy kind

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Connecting research regarding age

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:55:17 +0000

Despite their shared interest in questions of age, prejudice and agency, the fields of childhood studies, age studies and children’s literature studies remain relatively separate. This is clear from their diverging definitions and uses of terms such as ‘ageism’, ‘aetonormativity’, ‘adultism’ and ‘childism’. In this article, Vanessa Joosen employs the concept of ‘childism’ (John Wall)… Continue reading Connecting research regarding age

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