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Toward a Zeroth Voice: Theorizing Voice in Children’s Literature with Deleuze
Get PDFDrawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze, this paper explores the rhizome of voices in children’s texts and postulates that voice may be considered as something created through a Deleuzian becoming. Looking in turn at the coming together of book and reader, this rhizome of voices, and the complexity of authorship of children’s literature, this paper shows how the simulacral nature of voices present in children’s literature can lead to what Deleuze terms a collective assemblage of enunciation with its own voice, a zeroth voice. It is my contention that this zeroth voice liberates the reader from all the voices present in the creation of the text.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.0025
 
Les mouvements propulseurs du rire : le cas Mélanie Watt
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Watt, Mélanie. Le chef-d’œuvre de Chester. Toronto: Scholastic, 2010.
Watt, Mélanie. Chester. Toronto: Scholastic, 2007.
Watt, Mélanie. Chester le retour. Toronto: Scholastic, 2008.
Watt, Mélanie. Frisson l’écureuil. Toronto: Scholastic, 2006.
Watt, Mélanie. Frisson l’écureuil à la plage. Toronto: Scholastic, 2008.
Watt, Mélanie. Frisson l’écureuil en pleine nuit. Toronto: Scholastic, 2009.
Watt, Mélanie. Frisson l’écureuil se fait un ami. Toronto: Scholastic, 2007.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.003
Going Beyond Our Directive: Wall-E and the Limits of Social Commentary
Get PDFThe film Wall-E (2008) is both a love story and a social commentary about our current practices of consumption. Analysis of the film as text and of the theatre experience reveals the limitations of Wall-E’s social commentary: while some features of the film position viewers as critical readers of current social practices, other features of the film and of the viewing experience position viewers as consumers and naturalize traditional consumer practices. Wall-E thus illustrates the complex ways that kinderculture positions audiences as critics/consumers and the affective nature of its critical stance.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.0.0009
 
“Everything must go!” Consumerism and Reader Positioning in M. T. Anderson’s Feed
Get PDFDOI: 10.1353/jeu.2010.002
