{"product_id":"picturing-childhood-9781477311622","title":"Picturing Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eComics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault’s Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie to Hergé’s Tintin (Belgium), José Escobar’s Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (Germany), iconic child characters have given both kids and adults not only hours of entertainment but also an important vehicle for exploring children’s lives and the sometimes challenging realities that surround them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together comic studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection of essays provides the first wide-ranging account of how children and childhood, as well as the larger cultural forces behind their representations, have been depicted in comics from the 1930s to the present. The authors address issues such as how comics reflect a spectrum of cultural values concerning children, sometimes even resisting dominant \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePicturing Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed and long-awaited interdisciplinary project that looks at representations of children throughout the history of comics. * Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature *\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology will be extremely valuable for educators and students of children's comics; it is likely to trigger many important conversations about the intersections between comics and childhoods. * Jeunesse *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePicturing Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e is at its best when its contributors are exploring new ground and when they shine the spotlights of historical analysis and close reading on under-researched topics. * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePutting Childhood Back into World Comics: A Foreword, by Frederick Luis Aldama\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies, by Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Little Orphan Annie as Streetwalker, by Pamela Robertson Wojcik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Competent Children and Social Cohesion: Representations of Childhood in Home Front Propaganda Comics during World War II in Finland, by Ralf Kauranen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. In the Minority: Constructions of American Dream Childhood in 1950s–Early 1960s \u003ci\u003eLittle Audrey\u003c\/i\u003e Comics, by Christopher J. Hayton and Janardana D. Hayton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Comics and Emmett Till, by Qiana Whitted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Out of the Mouths of Babes: \u003ci\u003eMafalda\u003c\/i\u003e's Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House, by Brittany Tullis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Sex, Comix, and Masculinity: The Rhetoric of \u003ci\u003eZap Comix\u003c\/i\u003e's Attack on the American Mainstream, by Ian Blechschmidt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. \u003ci\u003eRAW\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLittle Lit\u003c\/i\u003e: Resisting and Redefining Children's Comics, by Lara Saguisag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. \u003ci\u003eLolicon\u003c\/i\u003e: Adolescent Fetishization in Osamu Tezuka's \u003ci\u003eAyako\u003c\/i\u003e, by James G. Nobis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Wise beyond Her Years: How \u003ci\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/i\u003e Introjects the Adult into the Child, by Clifford Marks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Vehlmann, or the End of Innocence: Lessons in Cruelty in \u003ci\u003eSeuls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJolies ténèbres\u003c\/i\u003e, by Annick Pellegrin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Zeno, Childhood, and \u003ci\u003eThe Three Paradoxes\u003c\/i\u003e, by C. W. Marshall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Dancing with Demons: Consciousness and Identity in the Comics of Lynda Barry, by Tamryn Bennett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. The Grotesque Child: Animal-Human Hybridity in \u003ci\u003eSweet Tooth\u003c\/i\u003e, by Mark Heimermann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408948207959,"sku":"9781477311622","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477311622.jpg?v=1730504819","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/picturing-childhood-9781477311622","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}