Towards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism

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dc.contributor.authorGarcia-Gonzalez, Macarena
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T21:03:16Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T21:03:16Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractA long-asked question in children's literature studies is how the child reads the very same book we (adults) have read. In 1984, Peter Hunt argued for a "childist criticism" proposing that young readers' multiple individual responses to literature should inform adults' critical practice. In this article, I propose that affect theory and new materialist epistemologies could reorient our critical practice in and with children's literature. Using the concept of childist criticism (Hunt 1984, 1991) and Maggie MacLure's (2013) notion of the "wonder of data," I follow different encounters between children (and researchers) and the book La madre y la muerte/La partida (Laiseca et al., 2016). This book tells a macabre story about a mother that cannot bear to have her child taken away by Death. By following the book's agency (Garcia-Gonzalez & Deszcz-Tryhubczak, 2020) in the research assemblage of different projects, I propose possible affective methodological orientations to post-representational research for children's literature criticism.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10583-022-09500-0
dc.identifier.eissn1573-1693
dc.identifier.issn0045-6713
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-022-09500-0
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/93131
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000839998100002
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final375
dc.pagina.inicio360
dc.revistaChildrens literature in education
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectnew materialism
dc.subjectaffect theory
dc.subjectliterary criticism
dc.subjectchildism
dc.subjectdeath
dc.titleTowards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen53
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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