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Vanessa Joosen deposited Rewriting the Grandmother’s Story: Old Age in “Little Red Riding Hood” and Gillian Cross’ Wolf in the group
Children’s literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoAbstract: Feminist perspectives have strongly influenced the fairy-tale rewritings of the past decades, but the intersection of gender with other identity markers deserves more attention. This article applies the conclusions of Sylvia Henneberg’s critical examination of age and gender in fairy tales to Gillian Cross’s Wolf (1990),
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Rewriting the Grandmother’s Story: Old Age in “Little Red Riding Hood” and Gillian Cross’ Wolf on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
Abstract: Feminist perspectives have strongly influenced the fairy-tale rewritings of the past decades, but the intersection of gender with other identity markers deserves more attention. This article applies the conclusions of Sylvia Henneberg’s critical examination of age and gender in fairy tales to Gillian Cross’s Wolf (1990),
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Van kind naar kinship: De constructie van leeftijd in de literatuuropvattingen van Bart Moeyaert in de loop van zijn schrijverschap on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Intergenerational dialogue is central to children’s literature. According to Marah Gubar, the relationship between childhood and adulthood can be cast in terms of difference, deficit (stressing what children do less well) and kinship. In the course of his writing career, the Flemish children’s author Bart Moeyaert evolved from a discourse of dif…[Read more]
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Bart Moeyaert as Writer, Author, Performer, and Public Figure: “That’s Also What Literature Can Be” on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Though only in his mid-fifties, Bart Moeyaert began his writing career over forty years ago, when at age thirteen. In the course of almost four decades as a published
author, Moeyaert’s views and writing practices have inevitably evolved. These developments can be attributed to personal experiences from living
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Vanessa Joosen edited the doc Digital Archives in the group
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Vanessa Joosen created the doc Digital Archives in the group
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Te kinderachtig voor de kinderen? Leeftijdsnormen in jeugdliteratuur digitaal onderzocht on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
In Ik ben Polleke, hoor! (2001) van Guus Kuijer zegt hoofdpersonage Polleke: ‘Ik wil best leuke dingen met Spiek doen, maar ik wil niet op hem passen. Hallo? Horen jullie me? Ik ben pas twaalf hoor!’ Door onder meer dit soort reflecties op leeftijd dragen jeugdboeken bij aan de constructie van leeftijdsnormen en daarmee aan de socialisatie van kin…[Read more]