"It's Not 'Just' Writing": Negotiating Childness in Children's Literature through Performance

Autor/in	Tandoi, Eve
Titel	"It's Not 'Just' Writing": Negotiating Childness in Children's Literature through Performance
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 50 (2019) 1, S.76-89 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-018-9377-3
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Novels; Reader Response; Performance; Poetry; Drama; Preadolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Novel; Roman; Leserbrief; Achievement; Leistung; Lyrik; Poesie; Schauspiel; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz
Abstract	This article reflects on insights gained from a larger study that explored how a class of ten- and eleven-year-olds read and responded to David Almond's hybrid novel, "My Name is Mina." Through focusing on the children's performances of the poems contained within the text, the discussion examines embodied aspects of the children's engagement and suggests that these play a critical role in the children's shared readership. The implications of this analysis are then considered in relation to Peter Hollindale's definition of "childness" and it is argued that a close analysis of William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" reveals tensions inherent between linguistic constructions of childness within the text and embodied performances on stage. Drawing on critical perspectives from children's literature theory and research conducted on classroom dialogue, the article argues that children make use of their social and physical positioning to engage in fictive negotiations of childness and adultness and, in so doing, co-create an aesthetic experience that we refer to as children's literature. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01