Journal article
Reading Black Childhoods in Chains and Crongton Knights
- Abstract:
- This essay reads Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (2008) and Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle (2016) as texts in the young adult (YA) genre that provocatively render black childhood legible. It contends that Anderson and Wheatle destabilise the presumed authority of first-person narratives through the formal choices that structure their novels. Through these choices, the essay argues, creative representations of black childhood in these two texts subvert and challenge perceptions of black children as so mature and resilient as to be outside or beyond notions of childhood or innocence — what is known as ‘adultification’.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/02690055.2022.2067212
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Wasafiri More from this journal
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 57-67
- Publication date:
- 2022-08-16
- DOI:
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1747-1508
- ISSN:
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0269-0055
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English
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1344076
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pubs:1344076
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2023-05-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Nicole King
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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