{"product_id":"the-child-gaze-narrating-resistance-in-american-literature-9781496854551","title":"The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature for children and adults. Through a range of texts, including James Baldwin's \u003ci\u003eLittle Man, Little Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Mildred D. Taylor's \u003ci\u003eRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, Gene Luen Yang's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Born Chinese\u003c\/i\u003e, and more, Amanda M. Greenwell focuses on children and their literal acts of looking. Detailing how these acts of looking direct the reader, she posits that the sightlines of children serve as signals to renegotiate hegemonic ideologies of race, ethnicity, creed, class, and gender. In her analysis, Greenwell shows how acts of looking constitute a flexible and effective narrative strategy, capable of operating across multiple points of view, focalizations, audiences, and forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weaving together scholarship on the US child, visual culture studies, narrative theory, and other critical traditions, \u003ci\u003eThe Child Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which child acts of looking compel readers to look at and with a child character, whose gaze encourages critiques of privileged visions of national identity. Chapters investigate how child acts of looking allow texts to redraw circles of inclusion around the locus of the child gaze and mobilize childhood as a site of resistance. The powerful child gaze can thus disrupt dominant scripts of power, widening the lens through which belonging in the US can be understood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda M. Greenwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Children's Literature Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496854551","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311331770505,"sku":"9781496854551","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6c306352-1d51-43a4-852f-052e4c881ae1.jpg?v=1738052849","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-child-gaze-narrating-resistance-in-american-literature-9781496854551","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}