The Case of Peter Pan

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• If children's fiction builds an image of the child inside the book, it does so in order to secure the child who is outside the book, the one who does not come so easily within its grasp. Children's fiction sets up the child as an outsider to its own process, and then aims, unashamedly, to take the child in. Children's fiction draws in the child, it secures,places and frames the child. How often has it been said recently that what is best about writing for children is that the writer can count absolutely on the child's willingness to enter into the book, and live the story? This is to describe children's fiction, quite deliberately, as something of a soliciting, a chase, or even a seduction. (查看原文)

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• Alice has been saved as a classic for children, and the question of what we mean by that 'for' - the question of its more difficult implications- remains unasked. I am using desire to refer to a form of investment by the adult in the child, and to the demand made by the adult on the child as the effect of that investment, a demand which fixes the child and then holds it in place. A turning to the child, or a circulating around the child - what is at stake here is not so much something which could be enacted as something which cannot be spoken. (查看原文)

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