Affect, Emotion, and Childrens Literature by Kristine Moruzi... - 9780367346416

Affect, Emotion, and Childrens LiteratureRepresentation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults\nAuthor(s): Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith, Elizabeth Bullen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367346416, 978-0367346416\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts for young people function as tools for emotional socialisation, enculturation, and political persuasion. The collection provides an introduction to this emerging field and engages with the representation of emotions, ranging from shame, grief, and anguish to compassion and happiness, as psychological and embodied states and cultural constructs with ideological significance. It also explores the role of narrative empathy in relation to emotional socialisation and to the ethics of representation in relation to politics, social j.