New Directions in Childhood Studies: Children and Youth in Popular Culture

Introduction, ¿Constructing the 21st Century Child¿
James Curtis
Part I: Picturing a New Kind of Childhood
Chapter One: ¿Rainbows in the Window: Static Childhood in COVID-19 Picture Books¿
Cara Byrne and Kristin Kondrlik
Chapter Two: ¿Picturing Political Agency in Childhood: Visual Rhetoric of Child Activism and
Identity in Children¿s Literature¿
Meghan Whitfield
Chapter Three: ¿[Re]Interpreting the Deaf Child¿s Solitude: A Counternarrative to Cece Bell¿s El
Deafö
S. Leigh Ann Cowan
Part II: The Rule of Law and Transgressive Constructions of American Childhood
Chapter Four: ¿Because What You Don¿t Know Can Kill You: Law, YA Lit, and the American
Adolescent Today¿
Jamie M. Fine
Chapter Five: ¿These Are the Rooms We¿re Not Supposed to Go In¿But Let¿s Go Anyway!¿:
Celebrating the Mobile Child, Embracing Nontraditional Kinship Structures, and Deconstructing
Neglect in The Florida Project¿
Joseph V. Giunta
Part III: Technology and the Posthuman Child
Chapter Six: ¿Roblox and the Value in Suspending Playbor Time¿
Sumaria Butt
Chapter Seven: ¿Happy Endings, Only $1.99: Uncovering the Corruption of Fairytales in Hope:
The Other Side of Adventure and its Online Legacy¿
Imogen Nutting and Ryan Twomey
Part IV: The 21st Century and the Necessity of Trauma-Informed Narratives
Chapter Eight: ¿The New `Normal¿¿: Cancer and Childhood in Rob Harrell¿s Wink
Allyson Wierenga
Chapter Nine: ¿The Trauma of Childhood and Emerging into Adulthood in A Court of Thorns
and Roses¿
Kirsten Bilger and Michael G. Cornelius
About the Contributors