Misfit Children

An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings

Markus Bohlmann

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498525800
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Crítica literaria

Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa. This collection of essays on misfit children produces transmissible motions across and engages in scholarly conversations that unfold betwixt and between in order to make rigid concepts twist and twirl, and ultimately fail to fit.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• Halftitle
• 1 Lost in Limbo: Children in Puritan New England
• 2 Misfit Morella: The Sources and Influences of Poe’s Possessed-Child Narrative
• 3 Fostering Evil: Adoption Stigma and the Monster Child in Film
• 4 “This Is How You Look”: Mimicry as Defense of the Actual (or Hidden) Child in Sandor Ferenczi’s Psychoanalysis
• 5 “Dark and Wicked Things”: The Slenderman, Tween Girlhood, and Deadly Liminalities
• 6 Grotesque Adolescence in Charles Burns’ Black Hole
• 7 Time Appropriation and Phototextual Intervention in Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• 8 The Child Prodigy Ages Out: White Male Privilege as Trauma in John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines and The Fault in Our Stars
• 9 Disidentifying with Futurity: The Unbecoming Child and Its Discontents
• 10 The Postcolonial Double Bind: César Vallejo’s “Paco Yunque”
• 11 Freaks in Procession? The Fancy Dress Masquerade as Haven for Negotiating Eccentricity during Childhood. A Study of Child Masqueraders in Cape Coast, Ghana
• 12 Queer Kids: Innocence, Beauty, and Stupidity in an Ideological State Apparatus
• 13 Growing Up Trans in the 1960s and the 2010s
• 14 Our Bodily Diverse Children Are Our Future: Disability, Apocalypse, and Camille Alexa’s “All Them Pretty Babies”
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors