Nursery realms : children in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"Child characters are surprisingly common in horror, fantasy, and science fiction literature and films. Children represent innocence and virtue and symbolize the classic question of fantastic literature: What is the future of the human race, and how will science and society improve or impair that future? This collection of essays explores the roles of children in the literature and film of the fantastic. The works vary in critical approach from textual analyses to psychological, historical, and gender- and ethnicity-based interpretations and draw their subject matter from contemporary and classic literary and film pieces
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., 1999
Congress
xiii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
9780820320953, 9780820321448, 0820320951, 0820321443
40218788
Introduction: Return to Innocence / Gary Westfahl
pt. 1. Fantastic Children: Overviews and Case Studies. Infant Joys: The Pleasures of Disempowerment in Fantasy and Science Fiction / Eric S. Rabkin. The Humpty Dumpty Effect, or Was the Old Egg Really All It Was Cracked Up to Be: Context and Coming of Age in Science Fiction and Fantasy / Frances Deutsch Louis. Narrative Uses of Little Jewish Girls in Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories: Mediating Between Civilization and Its Own Savagery / Susan Kray. The Triumph of Teen-Prop: Terminator II and the End of History / Gary Kern
pt. 2. The Children of Science Fiction. The Forever Child: Ender's Game and the Mythic Universe of Science Fiction / George Slusser. The Child as Alien / Joseph D. Miller. Baby's Next Step: Uberkinder and the Burden of the Future / Howard V. Hendrix. E.T. as Fairy Tale / Andrew Gordon
pt. 3. The Children of Fantasy and Horror. Child Vision in the Fantasy of George MacDonald / Gay Barton. If Not Today, Then Tomorrow: Fact, Faith, and Fantasy in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Autobiographical Writings / Alida Allison. A Real-World Source for the "Little People": A Comparison of Fairies to Individuals with Williams Syndrome / Howard M. Lenhoff. Coming of Age in Fantasyland: The Self-Parenting Child in Walt Disney Animated Films / Lynne Lundquist and Gary Westfahl. Nasty Boys, Feminine Longing, and Mourning the Mother in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Anne Rice's The Witching Hour / Stephanie Barbe Hammer. Unsealing Sense in The Turn of the Screw / Susan J. Navarette. Getting Things in the Right Order. Stephen King's The Shining, The Stand, and It / Bud Foote
Essays from the proceedings of the 15th Annual Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held Apr. 1993 in Riverside, Calif