The Courage to Imagine
eBook - PDF

The Courage to Imagine

The Child Hero in Children's Literature

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Courage to Imagine

The Child Hero in Children's Literature

About this book

The act of imagining lies at the very heart of children's engagements with literature and with the plots and characters they encounter in their favorite stories. The Courage to Imagine is a landmark new study of that fundamental act of imagining. Roni Natov focuses on the ways in which children's imaginative engagement with the child hero figure can open them up to other people's experiences, developing empathy across lines of race, gender and sexuality, as well as helping them to confront and handle traumatic experience safely. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches from the psychological to the cultural and reading a multicultural spectrum of authors, including works by Maya Angelou, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman and Brian Selznick, this is a groundbreaking examination of the nature of imagining for children and re-imagining for the adult writer and illustrator.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781350111752
eBook ISBN
9781474221245
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: What I Believe
  9. 1. Landscapes of Childhood
  10. 2. The Construction of the Creative Child
  11. 3. The Freedom to Imagine: Childhood Creativity and Socialization in the Work of William Steig
  12. 4. Imagining Difference and Diversity
  13. 5. Reimagining Fear and Trauma
  14. 6. New Heroes: New Visions of Childhood
  15. 7. Imagine Empathy: Kate DiCamillo’s The Tale of Despereaux and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
  16. 8. New Ways of Imagining the Picture Book: States of Mind, States of Feeling
  17. Epilogue: Surviving Childhood
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index