Description: "The figure of the child has played a significant role in constituting both the self-image and international reputation of Sweden from Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking (1945), centered around a competent, irreverent, autonomous child with high morals, to young Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, represented in media as a young fierce child who reprimands the adults for their inaction on the climate crisis. In The Not-Quite Child, Liina-Ly Roos analyses the construction of the normative coming-of-age trajectory through film and literature depicting alternative, marginalized childhood in Sweden"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Liina-Ly Roos is assistant professor in Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.