Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question-Who speaks?-by examining a variety of represented silences.

Danielle E. Price (Ph.D. UCLA) writes on children's literature, nineteenth-century studies, and disability. Recent publications include articles on disability in contemporary children's fiction (2022) and in George MacDonald's The Light Princess (2019) as well as on heterotopia in Christopher Paul Curtis' Elijah of Buxton (2016). She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Windsor.

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Tracing the Silent and Speaking Child 2 Disability and the Silent Child: Literary Selective Mutism 3 Race and Speech: Learning to Signify 4 Ecology and Speech: Talking to the Animals 5 Conclusion: Youth Activism, Rhetoric, and Intersectionality Index