Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film (Children's Literature Association Series)

Winner of the 2023 Edited Book Award from the International Research Society for Children's Literature Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz, Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, Björn Sundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb Intergenerational solidarity is a vital element of societal relationships that ensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fostering transfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, and culture essential to human development. In the face of global aging, changing family structures, family separations, economic insecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against each other, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, a pressing need. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film argues that productions for young audiences can stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However, Disney-Pixar's Up and Coco instead portray intergenerational alliances—young collaborating with old, the living working alongside the dead—as necessary to achieving goals. The collection also testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children's culture in the development of generational intelligence and empathy towards age-others and positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood. Introduction /Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak with Zoe Jaques --Part one: tradition of interage kinships in children's books.From solitary to solidary: intergenerational relationships in the representations of full lives /Clémentine Beauvais ;Pollyanna's intergenerational gladness: examining Porter's novels in the digital humanities /Ashley N. Reese ;"You and I Alfred": intergenerational solidarity in the Emil series /Björn Sundmark --Part two: child-adult alliances in contemporary narratives.Crossing the divide: how death and dementia develop understanding between young and old in contemporary children's literature /Jean Webb ;From juxtaposition to interweave: intergenerational collaboration in the works of Brian Selznick /Terri Doughty ;Envisioning solidarity: disrupting linear temporality in Studio Ghibli's Howls Moving Castle and When Marnie Was There /Aneesh Barai and Nozomi Uematsu ;"Remember me": intergenerational dialogue in Disney-Pixar animation /Zoe Jaques --Part three: children's literature as intergenerational memory.Trains to life--trains to death: Judith Kerr's writing and drawing from and about childhood exile in the Nazi era as intergenerational solidaristic practice /Lucy Stone ;The intergenerational self and the kinship model in Nadja Halilbegovich's My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary /Anastasia Ulanowicz ;Imagine genocides, multidirectional memory, and intergenerational solidarity in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine trilogy /Marek Oziewicz --Part four: children's literature and intergenerational projects."Something there is that doesn't love a wall": the mediating child and the ethics of cohabitation /Blanka Grzegorczyk ;A grand cause: representations of children's contributions to regenerative agriculture in picturebooks /Michelle Superle ;Gardening and intergenerational solidarity in contemporary American children's literature /Aneta Dybska --Part five: rewriting aetonormativity with young readers.The "lynx-eyed sagacity" of the "schoolboy": William Godwin and the Juvenile Library (1805-1825) /Milini Roy ;Building bridges: intergenerational solidarity in the works of Aidan Chambers /Vanessa Joosen ;The mingling of teenage and adult breaths: the Dutch Slash series as intergenerational communication /Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer and Sabine Steels --Afterword: the case of the evil (step)mother, or the impossibility of intergenerational solidarity /Maria Nikolajeva Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz, Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, Björn Sundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb

Intergenerational solidarity is a vital element of societal relationships that ensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fostering transfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, and culture essential to human development. In the face of global aging, changing family structures, family separations, economic insecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against each other, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, a pressing need.

Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film argues that productions for young audiences can stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However, Disney-Pixar’s Up and Coco instead portray intergenerational alliances—young collaborating with old, the living working alongside the dead—as necessary to achieving goals.

The collection also testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children’s culture in the development of generational intelligence and empathy towards age-others and positions the field of children’s literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood. "Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz, Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, Björn Sundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb Intergenerational solidarity is a vital element of societal relationships that ensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fostering transfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, and culture essential to human development. In the face of global aging, changing family structures, family separations, economic insecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against each other, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, a pressing need. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film argues that productions for young audiences can stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However, Disney-Pixar's Up and Coco instead portray intergenerational alliances-young collaborating with old, the living working alongside the dead-as necessary to achieving goals. The collection also testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children's culture in the development of generational intelligence and empathy towards age-others and positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood"-- Provided by publisher Intergenerational solidarity is a vital element of societal relationships that ensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fostering transfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, and culture essential to human development. In the face of global aging, changing family structures, family separations, economic insecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against each other, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, a pressing need. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film argues that productions for young audiences can stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However, Disney-Pixar's Up and Coco instead portray intergenerational alliances--young collaborating with old, the living working alongside the dead--as necessary to achieving goals. The collection also testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children's culture in the development of generational intelligence and empathy towards age-others and positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood. Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clmentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz, Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, Bjrn Sundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, JustynaDeszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk,Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz,Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, BjörnSundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz,Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb Intergenerationalsolidarity is a vital element of societal relationships thatensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fosteringtransfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, andculture essential to human development. In the face of globalaging, changing family structures, family separations, economicinsecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against eachother, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, apressing need. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children'sLiterature and Film argues that productions for youngaudiences can stimulate intellectual and emotional connectionsbetween generations by representing intergenerational solidarity.For example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have showna long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and thenconservatively healing, fissures between generations. However,Disney-Pixar's Up and Coco instead portrayintergenerational alliances-young collaborating with old, theliving working alongside the dead-as necessary to achieving goals.The collection also testifies to the cultural, social, andpolitical significance of children's culture in the development ofgenerational intelligence and empathy towards age-others andpositions the field of children's literature studies as a site ofintergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a newsocially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood