Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies...

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Anna Feuerstein Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo

Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture

New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies

Anna Feuerstein, Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo

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Routledge
04 April 2017

Literary studies: general; Cultural studies; Animals & society; Age groups: children

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping relationships between children, pets, and adults inform the wide range of essays included in this collection, as they explore issues such as protection, discipline, mastery, wildness, play, and domestication. The volume use the frequent social and cultural intersections between children and pets as an opportunity to analyze institutions that create pet and child subjectivity, from education and training to putting children and pets on display for entertainment purposes. Essays analyze legal discourses, visual culture, literature for children and adults, migration narratives, magazines for children, music, and language socialization to discuss how notions of nationalism, race, gender, heteronormativity, and speciesism shape cultural constructions of children and pets. Examining childhood and pethood in America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, this collection shows how discourses linking children and pets are pervasive and work across cultures. By presenting innovative approaches to the child and the pet, the book brings to light alternative paths toward understanding these figures, leading to new openings and questions about kinship, agency, and the power of care that so often shapes our relationships with children and animals. This will be an important volume for scholars of animal studies, childhood studies, children’s literature, cultural studies, political theory, education, art history, and sociology.

Edited by: Anna Feuerstein, Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 9781138230330
ISBN 10: 1138230332
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 04 April 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Feuerstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai’i – Manoa, USA. Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu, USA.

Reviews for Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies

"""[This book]’s accessible and thorough analysis of the discourse around the statuses of being a child and being a pet provides an essential understanding of how these discourses developed and their real-world impact. This volume is a crucial contribution to current work on children, childhood studies, and animals."" --Amy Ratelle, University of Toronto, Canada"