{"product_id":"the-feeling-child-9781498574402","title":"The Feeling Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film compiles a series of essays focusing on the figure of the child within the specific context of the affective turn in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America. This edited volume looks specifically at the intersection between cultural constructions of childhood and the affective turn within the contemporary sociopolitical landscape of Latin America. The editors and contributors share a common aim in furthering comprehension of the particular intensity of the child's affective presencespectatorial, haptic, silent, and spectral, among othersin contemporary Latin American cultural expression. The contributions herein approach this theoretical challenge through an interdisciplinary lens which brings together two burgeoning strands of inquiry. The first is the notion of childhood as a significant, and inherently political, sociocultural space; the second is the recognition that affect is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe affective attributes of child protagonists, thoroughly explored in The Feeling Child, reveal the disruptive potential of the child figure. Focusing on a selection of Latin American film and fiction, the essays probe how the child embodies a search for justice and understanding through feeling. The otherness of the child, whether observed in play or as a precocious and often stubborn witness to the chaos of adult society, can serve as a vehicle for examining traumatic memories of violence, repression, and inequality across the generations. -- Georgia Seminet, St. Edward's University\u003cbr\u003eThis provocative volume examines the affective turn in literary and visual representations of Spanish American children and adolescents. With a thorough conceptualization of affect, The Feeling Child provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the varied Spanish American childhoods shaped by major political events, class, ethnicity, and gender. By tracing the child in literary works and films of the twentieth and twenty first century, the different chapters offer stimulating analyses. -- Carolina Rocha, Southern Illinois University Edwardsvillle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Coached Feelings and Political Resocializations in Paula Markovitch’s El premio (2011)  Inela Selimović  2 “El sitio más cómodo y propicio para vigilar la otra”: Spaces of Childhood in the Work of Norah Lange Camilla Sutherland  3 Reaching Childhood, Unlearning the Transition: The Space of Memory in Alejandro Zambra’s Novel, Ways of Going Home (Chile, 2011) Philippa Page  4 An Infantile Witness in the New Bolivia: Juan Carlos Valdivia’s Zona Sur (2009) Peter Baker  5 Peruvian wounds: Children and violence in the fiction cinema of the Chaski Group, Gregorio (1984) and Juliana (1988) Sarah Barrow  6 The Diary of a Young Cuban Girl: Nieve Guerra in Todos se van (Wendy Guerra 2006; Sergio Cabrera 2014) Erin K. Hogan","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040817447255,"sku":"9781498574402","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498574402.jpg?v=1750947948","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-feeling-child-9781498574402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}