Children’s Folkore in the Twenty-First Century: Folklorists of Childhood respond to the Newtown Tragedy
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At the American Folklore Society’s annual meeting in 2000, the Children’s Folklore Section sponsored a panel in response to the Columbine tragedy of 1999. Titled “The Monstrous Child: Folklore Responds to Columbine and Adolescence,” this panel resulted in a special issue of Children’s Folklore Review (2002) in which folklorists of childhood responded to both Columbine and adolescence. Jo Ann Conrad’s paper, “The War on Youth: A Modern Oedipal Tragedy,” identified the concept of a “monstrous child” from which tragedies come. Since the time of our panel on Columbine, questions have arisen about the line between play and violence in frames of children’s activities and the issue of adult control of such activities. In the aftermath of the horrifying tragedy at Newtown in 2012, in which twenty children and six teachers died at the hands of a late-adolescent shooter, this panel again gathers folklorists of childhood to re-examine the use and urgency of children’s and adolescents’ folklore for youth and adults.
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