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- Title
Post Humanistic Elements in Child Writers: A Brief Analysis of Two Child Writers.
- Authors
Davis, Alfin
- Abstract
The study of child writers is a recently emerging branch of scholarly study. It is known by the name of 'juvenilia studies' in academia. The works of child writers grant the reader and the critic a privileged access into the thought process of children. This paper does a brief analysis to reveal the post human elements in the thought process of two child writers as revealed through their works. Opal Whiteley and Kavya Kompella, two child writers, the former speaking to us from the 20th century and the latter speaking to us in the 21st, have as the common thread of their works, the blurring of boundaries between the human and the non-human. Whiteley's work is a semi-fictional diary titled The Story of Opal: The Journal of An Understanding Heart where she recounts her days in an Oregon lumber camp - her days at school, the journeys she makes to her school, her home and other places near the settlement during the course of which she establishes a deep bond with all the living and nonliving things in and around the woods that surround the settlement. Kompella a nine-year old Indian published 110-pages book titled The Three Adventurers at Fungalore, which rose to the best-selling list of Amazon, India. The book is about two children, Neel and Nina who are excited to go to their new school, Fungalore, and the adventures that they have there.
- Subjects
HUMANISTS; WHITELEY, Opal; POSTHUMANISM; CHILDREN'S writings; GRANTS (Money)
- Publication
Language in India, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 3, p37
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article