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Disciplining Children in Toronto Playgrounds in the Early Twentieth Century
No full textThis paper examines how adults used playgrounds to discipline children in early twentieth-century Toronto. Using a close reading of playground texts from the period, the argument supports and elaborates upon Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s discussion of childism and Michel Foucault’s arguments about the control of activity and the art of distributions in the discipline of children. Adult reformers used time and space in order to produce particular gender identities and also to fulfill their own narcissistic needs. The Toronto case illustrates the depth of social power that often resides in seemingly benign urban spaces and the ways in which the prejudice against children can control their micromobilities and geographies.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.000
Se déplacer sans adultes en ville : récits d’autonomie de jeunes barcelonais
No full textDans cet article, nous cherchons à analyser les pratiques de la ville des enfants et adolescents pour comprendre comment ils agissent dans l’espace urbain contemporain et comment celui-ci les agit. Comment habitent-ils la ville ? Habiter non pas dans le sens d’ « avoir un toit » mais en tant qu’être localisé dans un espace physique à un moment donné. C'est-à-dire, comment se situent les jeunes dans l’espace urbain ? Comment reconnaissent-ils l’espace physique de la ville et comment l’utilisent-ils ? C’est en entrecroisant les témoignages des jeunes avec parfois ceux de leurs parents et surtout en les suivant dans leurs déplacements que nous avons essayé de comprendre comment se déroule l’apprentissage de leur autonomie en ville.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.0004
English: In this paper we reflect on how children and teenagers currently make use of the city in order to understand how they act in contemporary urban space and how the space acts upon them. How do they live in the city? Living in the city is not simply reduced to "having a home," but it is related to being located in a place at a defined point in time. That is to say, how do they fit into the urban space? How do they recognize the physical space of the city and how do they use it? This article explores the intersection of the testimonies of young people with those of their parents, focusing particularly on the urban itineraries of young people in order to understand how they learn to be autonomous in the city
Multicultural Folk and Fairy Tales for Children: Around the World in Eight Picture Books
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Alrawi, Karim. The Mouse Who Saved Egypt. Illus. Bee Willey. Vancouver: Tradewind, 2011.
Andrews, Jan. When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew: Tales of Ti-Jean. Illus. Dušan Petricšicé. Toronto: Groundwood, 2011.
Asch, Frank. Happy Birthday, Big Bad Wolf. Toronto: Kids Can, 2011.
Becker, Helaine. Juba This, Juba That. Illus. Ron Lightburn. Toronto: Tundra, 2011.
Davis, Aubrey. A Hen for Izzy Pippik. Illus. Marie Lafrance. Toronto: Kids Can, 2012.
Hood, Susan. The Tooth Mouse. Illus. Janice Nadeau. Toronto: Kids Can, 2012.
Krishnaswami, Uma. The Girl of the Wish Garden: A Thumbelina Story. Illus. Nasrin Khosravi. Toronto: Groundwood, 2013.
Ondaatje, Griffin. The Camel in the Sun. Illus. Linda Wolfsgruber. Toronto: Groundwood, 2013.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.001
Art Spiegelman’s In The Shadow of No Towers as Board Book: From the Matter of Materiality to the Way That Materiality Matters
No full textThis essay explores what happens when we foreground the materiality of Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, examining it first as a board book and second as a graphic memoir, a work of historical non-fiction, or a therapeutic piece of trauma writing. Michelle Ann Abate argues that the thick card stock on which the text is printed forms a key readerly access point as well as a thematic pivot point. Heeding the cue provided by the format of the board book moves children and childhood from the margins to the centre of the narrative. This new perspective reveals that, together with offering a critique about the politicization of 9/11, No Towers contains an illuminating analysis about the politicization of young people in the United States.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.002
Where Has All the “Good” Play Gone?
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Burn, Andrew, and Chris Richards, eds. Children’s Games and the New Media Age: Childlore, Media and the Playground. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Chagall, Irene, dir. Let’s Get the Rhythm. New York: Women Make Movies, 2014.
Ogata, Amy F. Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.001
Postnational Possibilities in Two YA Novels about Taiwan: The American Trace
No full textThis paper begins from the assumption that the beginning of the twenty-first century marked the end of an era defined by the “myth of American exceptionalism.” Following Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar’s contention that it is the return of the “American trace” that will give rise to a postnational identity, this paper offers a critical reading of Chang Ta-Chun’s Wild Child and Grace Lin’s Dumpling Days. As the analysis of these two young adult novels demonstrates, the figure of the child plays a pivotal role in the ongoing project to envision a “new” American identity, offering opportunities to chart the global exchanges between nations and to question twentieth-century models of global citizenship.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.001
Childhood, Power, and Travel in Salvatore Rubbino’s Picture Books: A Walk in the City
No full textThis article examines Salvatore Rubbino’s three travel-guide picture-book texts and the ideological management of childhood, mobility, adult-child power dynamics, and the city that they reveal. Rubbino’s books assume adults’ pedagogic and social authority, characters’ economic power (and tacitly that of readers), and an untroubled engagement with globalization, tourism, and consumption discourses. While guidebooks for children possess great potential for the promotion of child-centred discovery, literary tourism experiences for child readers, and the opportunity for young people to inhabit and explore “other” places and perspectives through literature, Rubbino’s picture books are preoccupied ultimately with an ideological regulation of children’s imaginative and physical mobility.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.000