Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film
284 pages, 6 x 9
8 b&w illustrations; 2 tables
Paperback
Release Date:01 Feb 2021
ISBN:9781496831927
Hardcover
Release Date:01 Mar 2021
ISBN:9781496831910
Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film
Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques
University Press of Mississippi
. argues that productions for young audiences can stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However, Disney-Pixar’s .
Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film takes advantage of the opportunity to be not only a powerful gathering of readings, but also an intersectional accomplishment in advocacy for a generational intelligence that offers hope for a more profound understanding of the complex relationships established between children and adults.
The essays offer a variety of approaches and should be of interest to scholars in the field of children’s literature.
[Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film] offers an exciting and intriguing contribution to the understanding of intergenerational relationships in children’s fiction. . . . The critical need for intergenerational solidarity has never been more apparent, a fact the collection asserts in the introduction, and which is threaded throughout the chapters.
Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film significantly intervenes in conversations about adult-child relationships in important ways, making an optimistic and hopeful case for the instrumentality of children’s culture as a response to social and cultural conditions that threaten to alienate generations. The rich international context provides a valuable example in how to continue to move toward a more global understanding of the fields of children’s literature and childhood studies.
The range of topics in Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film is very impressive indeed, and the distribution of essays across five sections—historical perspectives, alliances in contemporary narratives, intergenerational memory, intergenerational projects, and intergenerational collaboration/coauthorship—constitutes an excellent structure incorporating innovative and fascinating projects.
. is university senior lecturer in children’s literature at University of Cambridge. She is author of Children’s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg and coauthor of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass”: A Publishing History.
