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No(bodies): Ghost Children in Juvenile Literature (MLA 2012)
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-03-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-03-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
183684 |
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Children's Literature Association Sponsored Session for MLA 2012 Convention (Seattle, Jan. 5-8)
No(bodies): Ghost Children in Juvenile Literature
This panel seeks to explore the figure of the ghost child in children’s and young adult literature. Trapped in a permanent state of childhood/adolescence, the ghost child, through its lack of body, does not physically mature, thereby experiencing a stasis that is both tragic and frightening. In many texts, however, the ghost child undergoes some type of transformation that allows it to "grow up" in alternative ways. Papers might consider, but are not limited to, what the ghost child suggests about the following:
-identity development (or lack thereof)
-stasis and transition
-permanent childhood/adolescence
-notions of "growing up"
-the categories of child and adolescent as they relate to the body
-the status of the outsider
-death
Submit 500-word abstracts by 15 March 2011 to Elizabeth Talafuse, Texas A&M University: talafuse@tamu.edu
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Elizabeth Talafuse
Department of English
Texas A&M University
Email: talafuse@tamu.edu
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