Children's Table Childhood Studies and the Humanities

Name: Children's Table Childhood Studies and the Humanities
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ISBN: 9780820345222

ISBN-10: 0820345229

ISBN-13: 9780820345222

Edition: 2013

Authors: Annette Ruth Appell, Carol J. Singley, James Marten, John Wall, Karen Sï¿½nchez-Eppler

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Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Tablebrings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said at the children's table. Together, these scholars argue for rethinking the academic seating arrangement in a way that acknowledges the centrality of childhood to the work of the humanities.The figure we now recognize as a child was created in tandem with forms of modernity that the Enlightenment…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 6/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including in this series Children in Colonial America ; Children and Youth in a New Nation ; and Children and Youth during the Civil War Era (all available from NYU Press).



Acknowledgments


Introduction. The Children's Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities



Questioning the Autonomous Subject and Individual Rights


The Prepolitical Child of Child-Centered Jurisprudence



Childhood of the Race: A Critical Race Theory Intervention into Childhood Studies



Childhood Studies and History: Catching a Culture in High Relief



Childism: The Challenge of Childhood to Ethics and the Humanities




Recalibrating the Work of Discipline


"So Wicked": Revisiting Uncle Tom's Cabinï¿½s Sentimental Racism through the Lens of the Child



Minority/Majority: Childhood Studies and Antebellum American Literature



The Architectures of Childhood




Childhood Studies and the Queer Subject


"I Was a Lesbian Child": Queer Thoughts about Childhood Studies



Trans(cending)gender through Childhood



Childhood Studies and Literary Adoption




Childhood Studies: Theory, Practice, Pasts, and Futures


Childhood as Performance



In the Archives of Childhood



Doing Childhood Studies: The View from Within



Contributors


Index