The Child Gaze

The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature for children and adults. Through a range of texts, including James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man , Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry , Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye , Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese , and more, Amanda M. Greenwell focuses on children and their literal acts of looking. Detail