Speech and Silence in Contemporary Childrens Literature

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question-Who speaks?-by examining a variety of represented silences.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Tracing the Silent and Speaking Child
2 Disability and the Silent Child: Literary Selective Mutism
3 Race and Speech: Learning to Signify
4 Ecology and Speech: Talking to the Animals
5 Conclusion: Youth Activism, Rhetoric, and Intersectionality
Index

About the author

Danielle E. Price (Ph.D. UCLA) writes on children's literature, nineteenth-century studies, and disability. Recent publications include articles on disability in contemporary children's fiction (2022) and in George MacDonald's The Light Princess (2019) as well as on heterotopia in Christopher Paul Curtis' Elijah of Buxton (2016). She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Windsor.

Summary

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question—Who speaks?—by examining a variety of represented silences.

Product details

• Authors: Danielle E. Price
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032038384
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3203838-4
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Personal & public health, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Children's & teenage literature studies, Personal and public health / health education, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general