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Making Sense(s) of Children in Literature on the US-Mexican border

This project studies the role of the child from a sensorial perspective in a transnational corpus of contemporary US-Mexican border literature in order to question established conceptualizations of childhood. First, the sensorial experience of the child in a border context will be mapped, then the child’s sensorium will be approached from a narratological and stylistic focus in order to establish which image of childhood is represented.

Date:1 Nov 2020 →  Today
Keywords:border studies, sensory studies, Literature in English, childhood studies, literary criticism, Literature in Spanish, Border literature, (child) migration
Disciplines:Contemporary literature, Literatures in Spanish, Literatures in English, Literary criticism, Stylistics and textual analysis