{"product_id":"the-child-gaze-narrating-resistance-in-american-literature-hardback-9781496854544","title":"The Child Gaze; Narrating Resistance in American Literature (Hardback) 9781496854544","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Child Gaze\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNarrating Resistance in American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmanda M. Greenwell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496854544\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.453 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Child Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes in assumptions about the role of the child in fiction for young readers and adults alike and articulates important insights about the real-world implications of attending to the child’s gaze in the texts we read. This is a text that will change understanding and start conversations.\" - Sara K. Day, author of \u003ci\u003eReading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature for children and adults. Through a range of texts, including James Baldwin’s \u003ci\u003eLittle Man, Little Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Mildred Taylor’s \u003ci\u003eRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, Toni Morrison’s \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, Gene Luen Yang’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Born Chinese\u003c\/i\u003e, and more, Amanda M. Greenwell focuses on children and their literal acts of looking. Detailing how these acts of looking direct the reader, she posits that the sightlines of children serve as signals to renegotiate hegemonic ideologies of race, ethnicity, creed, class, and gender. In her analysis, Greenwell shows how acts of looking constitute a flexible and effective narrative strategy, capable of operating across multiple points of view, focalizations, audiences, and forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Weaving together scholarship on the US child, visual culture studies, narrative theory, and other critical traditions, \u003ci\u003eThe Child Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which child acts of looking compel readers to look at and with a child character, whose gaze encourages critiques of privileged visions of national identity. Chapters investigate how child acts of looking allow texts to redraw circles of inclusion around the locus of the child gaze and mobilize childhood as a site of resistance. The powerful child gaze can thus disrupt dominant scripts of power, widening the lens through which belonging in the US can be understood.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Power and Possibilities of Centering Child Sight Lines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One: The Appreciative Child Gaze: Valuing Visions of Marginalized Childhoods \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two: The Countersurveillant Child Gaze: Looking Back at Authority\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three: The Transactional Child Gaze: Wrestling with Ideology in the Visual Surround\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four: Comics Form and Materialization of the Child Gaze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: Envisioning Avenues for Further Study\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607726551320,"sku":"9781496854544","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-child-gaze-narrating-resistance-in-american-literature-hardback-9781496854544","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}