The affective attributes of child protagonists, thoroughly explored in The Feeling Child, reveal the disruptive potential of the child figure. Focusing on a selection of Latin American film and fiction, the essays probe how the child embodies a search for justice and understanding through feeling. The otherness of the child, whether observed in play or as a precocious and often stubborn witness to the chaos of adult society, can serve as a vehicle for examining traumatic memories of violence, repression, and inequality across the generations.

Georgia Seminet, St. Edward's University

This provocative volume examines the affective turn in literary and visual representations of Spanish American children and adolescents. With a thorough conceptualization of affect, The Feeling Child provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the varied Spanish American childhoods shaped by major political events, class, ethnicity, and gender. By tracing the child in literary works and films of the twentieth and twenty first century, the different chapters offer stimulating analyses.

Carolina Rocha, Southern Illinois University Edwardsvillle