Author : Anne Malewski
Release : 2021-12-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture write by Anne Malewski. This book was released on 2021-12-15. Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century − where these age boundaries are widely debated, policed, and contested − to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on observations, especially in children’s literature criticism, that human growth is shaped by a grand narrative that privileges adulthood, and on terminologies of non-normative growth, particularly in queer theory, this monograph develops growing sideways as a concept that queers this grand narrative by destabilising childhood and adulthood, and the boundaries between them. The concept is refined through close readings of twenty-first century British children’s literature, television series, film, and participatory events, troubling age boundaries via specific strategies in three conceptual areas: appearance, play, and space. Exploring power structures around age and gender, this monograph traces growing sideways as a distinct and important alternative discourse of human growth.