{"title":"Pollyanna’s Intergenerational Gladness","authors":"A. Reese","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores how Pollyanna, placed in the role of the Romantic child, is able to influence her entire community using the glad game. The chapter argues that she does so through consensual solidarity: as Pollyanna enters adulthood, the community expects that her influence will end, and indeed, Pollyanna complies by applying her lessons of positivity to herself. In this way, the two Pollyanna novels reinforce patriarchal standards. This mutual influence, including Pollyanna’s diminishing use of the word “glad,” is supported by the close reading and the distant reading conducted using the digital tool of Voyant.","PeriodicalId":314769,"journal":{"name":"Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127899138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Juxtaposition to Interweave","authors":"Terri Doughty","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines how Brian Selznick uses creative activities in The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Wonderstruck (2011) and The Marvels (2015) as loci for cross-generational collaboration. Beginning with a discussion of Selznick’s use of the orphan plot in all three books, it then focuses on Wonderstruck and The Marvels, which structurally take a more sophisticated approach to intergenerational relationships, juxtaposing and interweaving stories focalized through different generational perspectives to demonstrate intergenerational solidarity. The chapter argues that Selznick demonstrates how members of different generations thrive when they collaborate in telling their stories and helping one another find purpose and place in the world, establishing mutually beneficial communities.","PeriodicalId":314769,"journal":{"name":"Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127431844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nadja Halilbegovich’s My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary","authors":"A. Ulanowicz","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter draws on a close reading of Nadja Halilbegovich’s My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary (2006) in order to argue that its original entries and subsequent annotations demonstrate Marah Gubar’s kinship model of childhood studies, which privileges the relatedness, rather than the difference, between children and adults. It addresses first the content of Halilbegovich’s diary, which is concerned with charting the creative collaboration of children and adults under siege, and second, its form, which promises a rich negotiation between the author’s earlier childhood voice and the annotations she offers as an adult reader of her original diary.","PeriodicalId":314769,"journal":{"name":"Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114407450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mingling of Teenage and Adult Breaths","authors":"H. V. Lierop-Debrauwer, Sabine Steels","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses how the idea of intergenerational partnership is put into practice in a Dutch series of collaborative life writing for young adults. The books in this series are a product of a cooperative effort between young adult and well-known children’s authors, with the former telling their life stories to the latter, who subsequently wrote the stories down. Interviews with four authors and four young adults about what John Paul Eakin calls “the story of the story” band an analysis of the authenticity of representation in one case study show that the young adult’s agency in this creative project is equally important as the adult’s agency, thus supporting Marah Gubar’s view of childhood and adulthood as related instead of separated.","PeriodicalId":314769,"journal":{"name":"Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127615918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“You and Me, Alfred”","authors":"Björn Sundmark","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"By focusing on instances of intergenerational solidarity in, primarily, the Emil books by Astrid Lindgren, this chapter nuances the question of how power, agency, and generation are represented in children’s books. Instead of reading the Emil books as either instances of aetonormativity or as examples of child agency and subversion, an “all ages” approach is employed to unpack the double generational bind—child-parent and child-adult. In that context the notion of “kinship” is also employed to show how solidarity can be made to extend beyond the immediate family circle. Hence, the Emil books demonstrate that free play and acts of solidarity are not mutually exclusive things and that the world can be made a better place right now. In other words, there is a utopian drive in Lindgren’s stories as children who have that energy and that sense of solidarity can continue to do good as adults.","PeriodicalId":314769,"journal":{"name":"Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115648361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Grand Cause","authors":"Michelle Superle","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines a small yet significant body of recently published English-language picturebooks that represent children’s contributions to regenerative agriculture as valuable—even integral—to the increasingly urgent work of developing new, sustainable agricultural practices. Viewed through a child-centered lens using the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, works such as On Grandpa’s Farm, Sleep Tight Farm, and Anywhere Farm portray children as valuable partners in agricultural activities, collaborating with adults to ensure food security on a small but impactful scale. Such representations have immense inspirational potential not only for swelling the ranks of the “Good Food Movement” with enthusiastic new participants of all ages, but also for planting seeds of hope in children’s minds. A crucial group of recently published picturebooks about farming extends the empowering promise that children can participate in saving the world right now through ethical food production—while simultaneously creating a healthier future for everyone.","PeriodicalId":314769,"journal":{"name":"Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122721843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}