Misfit Children

Introduction - Markus P. J. Bohlmann
Chapter 1 - Maria C. Schwenk, “Lost in Limbo: Children in Puritan New England”
Chapter 2 - Sean Moreland, “Misfit Morella: The Sources and Influences of Poe’s Possessed-Child Narrative”
Chapter 3 - Craig Martin and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, “Fostering Evil: Adoption Stigma and the Monster Child in Film”
Chapter 4 - Daniel G. Butler and Stephen Hartman, “‘This is How You Look’: Mimicry as Defense of the Actual (or Hidden) Child in Sandor Ferenczi’s Psychoanalysis”
Chapter 5 - Jessica Balanzategui and Naja Later, “‘Dark and Wicked Things’: The Slender Man, Tween Girlhood, and Deadly Liminalities”
Chapter 6 - Mark Heimermann, “Grotesque Adolescence in Charles Burns’ Black Hole”
Chapter 7 - Danette DiMarco, “Phototextuality and Racial Time in Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
Chapter 8 - Christopher Parkes, “The Child Prodigy Ages Out: White Male Privilege as Trauma in John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines and The Fault in Our Stars”
Chapter 9 - Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, “Disidentifying with Futurity: The Unbecoming Child and its Discontents”
Chapter 10 - Ann González, “The Postcolonial Double-Bind in Latin America: Cesar Vallejo’s ‘Paco Yunque’”
Chapter 11 - Awo Sarpong and De-Valeria Botchway, “Freaks in Procession? The Fancy Dress Masquerade as Haven for Negotiating Eccentricity during Childhood. A Study of Child Masqueraders in Cape Coast, Ghana”
Chapter 12 - Andrew Pump, “Queer Kids: Innocence, Beauty, and Stupidity in an Ideological State Apparatus”
Chapter 13 - Julian Gill-Peterson, “Growing Up Trans in the 1960s and 2010s”
Chapter 14 - Derek Newman-Stille, “Our Bodily Diverse Children Are Our Future: Disability, Apocalypse, and Camille Alexa’s All Them Pretty Babies”