Containing Childhood - 9781496841186

Containing ChildhoodSpace and Identity in Children's Literature\nAuthor(s): Danielle Russell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496841186, 978-1496841186\nSynopsis\nContributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Andrew Trevarrow, and Richardine Woodall\n\n Home. School. Nature. The spaces children occupy, both physically and imaginatively, are never neutral. Instead, they carry social, cultural, and political histories that imposeor attempt to imposebehavioral expectations. Moreover, the spaces identified with childhood reflect and reveal adult expectations of where children \""belong.\""\n\n The essays in Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Childrens Literature explore the multifaceted and dynamic nature of space, as well as th.