Can the Child Speak? Childhood in the Age of Nation-States, Children’s Rights, and the Role of Children’s Literature

Nolte-Odhiambo, Carmen2017-04-112017-04-112016http://hdl.handle.net/10790/3020Positing that the institutions of childhood, and children’s books in particular, contain the child as both a controlled subject and a disruptive presence, this article notes the potential of children’s literature for fostering a dialogical engagement between child and adult voices within as well as outside the texts.23 pagesen-USCan the Child Speak? Childhood in the Age of Nation-States, Children’s Rights, and the Role of Children’s LiteratureJournal