Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures Hardback
Edited by Monica Flegel, Christopher Parkes
Part of the Critical Approaches to Children's Literature series
Hardback
Description
This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency.
Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays demonstrate how gender, race, and class influence who gets labeled 'cruel' and which actions are viewed as negative, aggressive, and disruptive.
It shows how representations of cruel young people negotiate the violence that shadows polite society, and how narratives of cruelty and aggression are used to affirm, or to deny, young people’s agency.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 7 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 312 p. 7 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:30/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319722740
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 7 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 312 p. 7 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:30/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319722740
