Code
01D16920
Duration
01 November 2020 → 31 October 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Contemporary literature
- Literatures in English
- Literatures in Spanish
- Stylistics and textual analysis
- Literary criticism
Keywords
Border literature
border studies
(child) migration
childhood studies
sensory studies
literary criticism
Literature in Spanish
Literature in English
Project description
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.