Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture

Anna Feuerstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai’i – Manoa, USA.Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu, USA.

• CONTENTSList of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPreface 1: Children and Animal ‘Pets’Monica FlegelPreface 2: On Childhood Studies and Human ExceptionalismKenneth KiddIntroduction: The Cultural Politics of Childhood and Pethood Anna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-OdhiamboSection I: Family, Language, and Nationhood1. Custody, Adoption, Protection: Contested Institutional Representations of Pets as Children James Gillett2. Transgressing the ‘Luggage’ Metaphor: Children and Pets as Migrants in the Context of Contemporary International Mobility from Poland to NorwayJustyna Struzik and Paula Pustulka3. Who Needs Protection and Discipline? Children, Pets, and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman and Turkish Lands Melis Sulos4. Pets as Vehicles of Language Socialization: Encouraging Children’s Emotional, Moral, and Relational Development in JapaneseMatthew Burdelski5. Moamahi ā Puaʻa Moe Poli: Nā Keiki a nā Hānaiāhuhu i ka Moʻomeheu Hawaiʻi (Cherished Chickens to Chest-cuddled Pigs: Children and Pets in Hawaiian Culture) ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanuiSection II: Literature for Children and Adults6. Pullman, Pets, and Posthuman Animals: The Dæmon-child of His Dark Materials Zoe Jaques7. Domesticating Dorothy: Toto’s Role in Constructing Childhood in The Wizard of Oz and Its Retellings Caryn Kunz Lesuma8. Mr. Dog Is a Conservative: Representations of Children and/as Animals in Little Golden BooksKelly Hübben9. ‘Oh God, Give Me Horses!’: Pony-Mad Girls, Sexuality, and PethoodAmalya Layla Ashman10. ‘The cats are outside hanging’: Settler Colonialism, Racialized Animality, and Queer Kinship in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s HangingAnna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo11. Doomed Creatures: Children and Nonhuman Animals in Contemporary Southern African Fiction in EnglishWendy WoodwardSection III: Music and Visual Culture12. Bird Songs for Children, the Rhetoric of Conservation, and Voicing the Bird in the United States, 1900-1930Katheryn Lawson13. Black Children as Pets in Eighteenth-Century European CourtsMichèle Bocquillon14. ‘The Values of Savagery’: Pathologies of Child and Pet Play in Avant-Garde Visual CultureVictoria de Rijke15. The Best Friend: Exploring Power Relations of the Child-Pet Co-Construction in Children’s TV ProgramsÅsa PetterssonIndex

"[This book]’s accessible and thorough analysis of the discourse around the statuses of being a child and being a pet provides an essential understanding of how these discourses developed and their real-world impact. This volume is a crucial contribution to current work on children, childhood studies, and animals." --Amy Ratelle, University of Toronto, Canada