Down the back of a chair: what can a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene?
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de Rijke, V., Osgood, J. and Laura-Rosa 2023. Down the back of a chair: what can a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene? in: Deszcz-Tryhubczak, J. and García-González, M. (ed.) Children’s Culture Studies After Childhood John Benjamins. pp. 152-170
Chapter title | Down the back of a chair: what can a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene? |
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Authors | de Rijke, V., Osgood, J. and Laura-Rosa |
Abstract | In this chapter, the authors work with Ursula Le Guin’s (1986) Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction to offer a reconfiguration of “the book” in childhood contexts. Attending to the relational agencies generated from messy entanglements of (hence hyphenated) reader-book-child-chair-cat-lice-mites, they feel their way around to arrive at other ideas about what books are, what books do, and what else they might potentiate in contemporary imaginations of “the child”. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural “carrier bag” rather than a weapon of domination. The authors offer a scrabbling methodology of “research-creation”: a method of scrabbling “down the back of the chair” (both literally and metaphorically). This feminist methodology attunes to assemblages of odds and ends, hair and dust mites, children’s literature and child readers and facilitates an exploration of the intersectional, relational meanings that might tell us something else about childhood in the Anthropocene. |
Keywords | relational; posthuman; assemblage; material |
Sustainable Development Goals | 10 Reduced inequalities |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
Page range | 152-170 |
Book title | Children’s Culture Studies After Childhood |
Editors | Deszcz-Tryhubczak, J. and García-González, M. |
Publisher | John Benjamins |
Series | Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9789027213976 |
Electronic | 9789027249593 |
ISSN | 2212-9006 |
Publication dates | |
01 Aug 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 27 Nov 2024 |
Output status | Published |
Copyright Statement | Available on the publisher's website under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. DOI of book: https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.16 For any use beyond this license, please contact the publisher at rights@benjamins.nl. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.16.10rij |
Related Output | |
Is part of | https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.16 |
Language | English |
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