What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death? What can Peter Pan tell us about the theatrical, literary, and educational institutions of which it is a part? In a new preface written especially for this edition, Rose accounts for some of the new developments since...
What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death? What can Peter Pan tell us about the theatrical, literary, and educational institutions of which it is a part? In a new preface written especially for this edition, Rose accounts for some of the new developments since her book's first publication in 1984. She discusses some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of a transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.
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)
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)
童書往往是關於兒童的，但成人常利用童書裡描繪的兒童來理解兒童，真正的兒童一直被當成客體，而不是subject，而真正的兒童能不能進來文本為自己發聲呢？ 我很喜歡Jacqueline Rose在The Case of Peter Pan裡所說：「彼得潘（Barrie）的問題，就是英國人的問題，就是我們的問題...
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University of Pennsylvania Press1993版
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