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OverviewMisfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa. This collection of essays on misfit children produces transmissible motions across and engages in scholarly conversations that unfold betwixt and between in order to make rigid concepts twist and twirl, and ultimately fail to fit. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Markus Bohlmann , Jessica Balanzategui , De-Valera N.Y.M Botchway , Daniel ButlerPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781498525794ISBN 10: 1498525792 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 14 December 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction - Markus P. J. Bohlmann Chapter 1 - Maria C. Schwenk, Lost in Limbo: Children in Puritan New England Chapter 2 - Sean Moreland, Misfit Morella: The Sources and Influences of Poe's Possessed-Child Narrative Chapter 3 - Craig Martin and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Fostering Evil: Adoption Stigma and the Monster Child in Film Chapter 4 - Daniel G. Butler and Stephen Hartman, 'This is How You Look': Mimicry as Defense of the Actual (or Hidden) Child in Sandor Ferenczi's Psychoanalysis Chapter 5 - Jessica Balanzategui and Naja Later, 'Dark and Wicked Things': The Slender Man, Tween Girlhood, and Deadly Liminalities Chapter 6 - Mark Heimermann, Grotesque Adolescence in Charles Burns' Black Hole Chapter 7 - Danette DiMarco, Phototextuality and Racial Time in Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Chapter 8 - Christopher Parkes, The Child Prodigy Ages Out: White Male Privilege as Trauma in John Green's An Abundance of Katherines and The Fault in Our Stars Chapter 9 - Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, Disidentifying with Futurity: The Unbecoming Child and its Discontents Chapter 10 - Ann Gonzalez, The Postcolonial Double-Bind in Latin America: Cesar Vallejo's 'Paco Yunque' Chapter 11 - Awo Sarpong and De-Valeria Botchway, Freaks in Procession? The Fancy Dress Masquerade as Haven for Negotiating Eccentricity during Childhood. A Study of Child Masqueraders in Cape Coast, Ghana Chapter 12 - Andrew Pump, Queer Kids: Innocence, Beauty, and Stupidity in an Ideological State Apparatus Chapter 13 - Julian Gill-Peterson, Growing Up Trans in the 1960s and 2010s Chapter 14 - Derek Newman-Stille, Our Bodily Diverse Children Are Our Future: Disability, Apocalypse, and Camille Alexa's All Them Pretty BabiesReviewsMisfit Children is a fantastic new addition to the scholarship on childhood and various forms of non-conformity. There are none of the usual homilies about innocent children here, only an ever expanding archive of narratives, theories, and representations of the wonderful weirdness of the child and child worlds. -- Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure A fun and lively volume on misfit kids of all sorts, from the outright monstrous to the gently peculiar. Contributors take up topics as diverse as kid masquerade dancers in Ghana, angsty white boy prodigies in the novels of John Green, Ferenczian psychoanalysis, Slenderman-attributed tween violence, and the medical normalization of transkids. An eclectic but essential contribution to childhood studies. -- Kenneth B. Kidd, University of Florida A fun and lively volume on misfit kids of all sorts, from the outright monstrous to the gently peculiar. Contributors take up topics as diverse as kid masquerade dancers in Ghana, angsty white boy prodigies in the novels of John Green, Ferenczian psychoanalysis, Slenderman-attributed tween violence, and the medical normalization of transkids. An ecelectic but essential contribution to childhood studies. -- Kenneth B. Kidd, University of Florida Author InformationMarkus P. J. Bohlmann is professor of English at Seneca College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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