Producing Children

PETER C. KUNZE is an assistant professor of communication at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the author of Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance (Rutgers University Press). VICTORIA FORD SMITH is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. She is the author of Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature.

Introduction by Peter C. Kunze and Victoria Ford Smith
Part 1: Authorship
Chapter 1: Daisy Ashford and the Child Writer’s Use of Scale by Katharine Slater
Chapter 2: “I didn’t die and felt the Earth”: Nature and the Urgency of Perception for Young Black Poets in The Voice of the Children Workshop by Rachel Conrad
Chapter 3: Representations of Youth Environmental Activism and Agency in Aika Tsubota’s Secrets of the Earth by Brianna Anderson
Part 2: Performance and Play
Chapter 4: Phillis Wheatley’s Image and the Creative Black Child by Brigitte Fielder
Chapter 5: “[W]hen he saw the pencil put to paper”: The Meaning Making of Children’s Language in Depression-era Harlem by Maggie E. Morris Davis
Chapter 6: Creative Testimonio as Activism: A Case Study of Sophie Cruz and Sarai Gonzalez by Cristina Rhodes
Chapter 7: Child Actors as Authors and Collaborators in Contemporary World Cinema by Peter C. Kunze
Part 3: Collaboration and Co-creation
Chapter 8: ‘Mostly Written By’: A Cookbook Model for Reading Children’s Art by Ivy Linton Stabell
Chapter 9: Negotiating Nightmares: Improvising with Children in Arthur Tress’s The Dream Collector by Victoria Ford Smith
Chapter 10: Choreographing Kinship: The Adult-Child Pas de Deux in Day on Earth and Lineage by Marah Gubar
Chapter 11: Charli, Charlie, and I: An Autoethnographic Study of TikTok Dance and Child/Adult Collaborations by Trevor Boffone
Notes on Contributors
Index