{"product_id":"new-directions-in-childhood-studies-innocence-trauma-and-agency-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781666940282","title":"New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children’s literature, film, and video games to explore the ways in which everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. In many ways, the essays show, the narratives blur traditional lines between children’s and adult content, taking children series as subjects while also guiding them through the processes of dealing with the particular challenges. Collectively, the essays develop a more contemporary construct of the American child and offer new insights into what that construction might mean for contemporary American society and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction, “Constructing the 21st Century Child”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Curtis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Picturing a New Kind of Childhood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: “Rainbows in the Window: Static Childhood in COVID-19 Picture Books”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCara Byrne and Kristin Kondrlik\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: “Picturing Political Agency in Childhood: Visual Rhetoric of Child Activism and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentity in Children’s Literature”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeghan Whitfield\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: “[Re]Interpreting the Deaf Child’s Solitude: A Counternarrative to Cece Bell’s El\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeafo”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eS. Leigh Ann Cowan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: The Rule of Law and Transgressive Constructions of American Childhood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: “Because What You Don’t Know Can Kill You: Law, YA Lit, and the American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdolescent Today”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie M. Fine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: “These Are the Rooms We’re Not Supposed to Go In…But Let’s Go Anyway!”:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrating the Mobile Child, Embracing Nontraditional Kinship Structures, and Deconstructing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeglect in The Florida Project”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph V. Giunta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Technology and the Posthuman Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: “Roblox and the Value in Suspending Playbor Time”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSumaria Butt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: “Happy Endings, Only $1.99: Uncovering the Corruption of Fairytales in Hope:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Other Side of Adventure and its Online Legacy”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImogen Nutting and Ryan Twomey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: The 21st Century and the Necessity of Trauma-Informed Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: “The New ‘Normal’”: Cancer and Childhood in Rob Harrell’s Wink\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllyson Wierenga\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: “The Trauma of Childhood and Emerging into Adulthood in A Court of Thorns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Roses”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirsten Bilger and Michael G. Cornelius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042037530967,"sku":"9781666940282","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666940282.jpg?v=1750952739","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-directions-in-childhood-studies-innocence-trauma-and-agency-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781666940282","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}