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Queer growing sideways twentieth century. Her compelling and vitally important contribution to our understanding. Placing in conversation childhood studies animal studies and recent work on queer temporalities kathryn bond stocktons the queer child traces the figure of the dark. In the queer child stockton sets out to illuminate representations of queer children both those that are explicit and also those ghosted in the backgrounds and margins of western texts and films spanning the last centurygiven the breadth of her exploration stockton. The kind of book that defines the field and is returned to again and again inspiring all sorts of thought and work for generations to come.
Kathryn bond stocktons richly incisive intellectual history the queer child or growing sideways in the twentieth century reveals a parallel tract of the literary imagination. Stockton sails seamlessly from nabokov to hoop dreams inviting her readers to discover how and why the child and its relations are at once central for and yet opaque to. Reviewed by patricia nelson. The queer child or growing sideways in the twentieth century is a prescient poetic contribution to cultural studies literary criticism and queer and feminist scholarship.
The queer child or growing sideways in the twentieth century by stockton kathryn bond children are thoroughly shockingly queer as kathryn bond stockton explains inthe queer child where she examines childrens strangeness even some childrens subliminal gayness in the twentieth century. Within this realm of religion and politics the idea of the queer child is unimaginable. The queer child or growing sideways in the twentieth century. Stockton sails seamlessly from nabokov to hoop dreams inviting her readers to discover how and why the child and its relations are at once central for and yet opaque to.
The queer child or growing up sideways in the twentieth century kathryn bond stockton duke university press 2295 312 p. Duke university press 2009. Engaging and challenging the work of sociologists legal theorists and historians stockton coins the term growing sideways to describe ways of growing that defy the usual sense of growing up in a linear trajectory toward full stature marriage reproduction and the relinquishing of childish ways. The queer child or growing sideways in the twentieth century book.
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