New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781666940282)

This collection examines contemporary children's literature, film, and video games to explore how everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. Thus, the book updates childhood studies discourse by offering a more inclusive and realistic definition of childhood in the twenty-first century.