Producing Children : Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity

Kunze, Peter C. (EDT); Smith, Victoria Ford (EDT); Slater, Katharine (CON); Conrad, Rachel (CON); Anderson, Brianna (CON)

ISBN 10: 1978842325 / ISBN 13: 9781978842328

Published by Rutgers University Press, 2025

Seller Inventory # 48130962-n

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: PETER C. KUNZE is an assistant professor of communication at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the author of Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance (Rutgers University Press).

VICTORIA FORD SMITH is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. She is the author of Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Producing Children : Critical Studies in ...
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New