Producing Children: Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Rutgers University Press, 2025
Cloth: 978-1-9788-4232-8 | Paper: 978-1-9788-4231-1 | eISBN: 978-1-9788-4233-5 (ePub) | eISBN: 978-1-9788-4234-2 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification BF723.C7P76 2025
Dewey Decimal Classification 155.41335
Cloth: 978-1-9788-4232-8 | Paper: 978-1-9788-4231-1 | eISBN: 978-1-9788-4233-5 (ePub) | eISBN: 978-1-9788-4234-2 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification BF723.C7P76 2025
Dewey Decimal Classification 155.41335
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revising the long-established, hierarchical relation between adults and children. The chapters in this collection reveal that studying child-produced culture complicates our received understandings of children’s culture as culture by adults, for children, about children. They also underscore “children’s literature” as a cultural phenomenon that moves across and beyond genres, forms, and media. As a whole, this collection reveals that attention to child-produced culture invites dialogue and collaboration across fields and disciplines invested in the critical understanding of children as embodied beings and childhood as both a stage of development and discursive construct with social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions and influence. With the ongoing vibrancy of childhood studies as a multidisciplinary area of inquiry, studies of child-produced culture provide scholars with an exciting opportunity to complicate, enrich, and expand theorization of childhood creativity, children’s culture, and even children themselves.
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