The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Rose
Keyword(s):  
Peter Pan ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Children's Fiction

The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction

Poetics Today ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
Mieke Bal ◽  
Jacqueline Rose
Keyword(s):  
Peter Pan ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Children's Fiction

Queer Theory's Child and Children's Literature Studies

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ◽  
Children's Fiction

In 2002 Karín Lesnik-Oberstein and Stephen Thomson published an essay entitled “what is queer theory doing with the child?,” addressing work in the 1990s by Michael Moon and the late, great Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the “protogay” child. Something inappropriate, even scandalous, was their answer, as one might surmise from the accusatory shape of the question. In their reading, Moon and Sedgwick essentialize rather than interrogate the protogay child, such that said child becomes “an anti-theoretical moment, resistant to analysis, itself the figure deployed as resistance” (36). For Lesnik-Oberstein and Thomson, queer theory is insufficiently alert to the lessons of poststructuralist theory and especially to the ongoing interrogation of “child” and “childhood.” Lesnik-Oberstein and Thomson specialize in childhood studies, and Lesnik-Oberstein is a well-known scholar of children's literature. Her 1994 Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child extends and takes inspiration from Jacqueline Rose's The Case of Peter Pan; or, The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984), which ushered into children's literature studies a powerful and lasting skepticism about “childhood” and “children's literature.”

scholarly journals The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-257
Author(s):  
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Biological Entities ◽  
Children's Fiction

This article argues a different understanding to that in children's literature studies more widely of the implications of the work of Jacqueline Rose in The Case of Peter Pan or: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) for thinking about childhood, animality and children's literature and links these implications to the similar implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking about the child and animality. In both cases, the child and the animal are seen not as psycho-biological entities nor as products of social constructivism nor as categories that must be seen as inclusive of variety, but as memories, where memory is understood in the psychoanalytic sense as a present production of a past, including ‘observation’ as remembered. The implications of the arguments are demonstrated in relation to readings of Jessica Love's award-winning picture book Julián is a Mermaid (2018) as well as several reviews of the text in relation specifically to ideas of (trans) sexuality, gender, childhood, ethnicity and mermaids. Key here is what is understood to be the shared interest of psychoanalysis and deconstructive thinking in not stabilising definitions but instead in reading them as shifting in perspective.

Children's Fiction about Africa in English

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Abdul R. Yesufu ◽  
Nancy J. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Children's Fiction
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