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Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods / edited by Rachel Conrad.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Literary cultures and childhoods
- Literary Cultures and Childhoods
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
- Children's literature, English.
- Children in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods
- Works Cited
- Part I: Framing the Twentieth Century: Spectacle, Self, and Specularity
- Chapter 2: Spectacle and Parody: Burlesque Subjectivity in the American Picturebook
- Picturebooks
- Criticism and Contexts
- Chapter 3: The Self in Twentieth-Century American Children's Literature: A Tale of Two Schemas
- The Interpersonal Self in Children's Texts
- The Triumph of the Isolated Self
- Conclusion: A Swinging Pendulum?
- Works Cited
- Chapter 4: A Subjunctive Imagining: June Jordan's Who Look at Me and the Conditions of Black Agency
- Part II: Representations of Childhoods: Questioning or Re-Imposing Received Tropes
- Chapter 5: Seeing Red: The Inside Nature of the Queer Outsider in Anne of Green Gables and The Well of Loneliness
- Inside Out: Nature and Nerve
- Outside In: Representative Women
- Chapter 6: New Spaces and New Childhoods: Challenging Assumptions of Normative Childhood in Modernist Children's Literature
- Resituating Childhood 'Innocence'
- Children's Literature and/or Modernism? Issues of Classification
- "They had freed themselves, fighting": Postcolonial Childhood in Popo and Fifina
- The World is Round: A Queer Phenomenology of Girlhood
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Modern Family, Modern Colonial Childhoods: Representations of Childhood and the US Military in Colonial School Literature
- "Good Will": Revising History
- "Luisa's Gift": A Colonial Version of Modern Girlhood
- "Tomansín's Company": A Colonial Version of Modern Boyhood
- Works Cited
- Chapter 8: Reading for Success: Booker T. Washington's Pursuit of Education in Two Children's Books
- Part III: Identity and Displacement: Narrating History and Culture
- Chapter 9: "I remember. Oh, I remember": Traumatic Memory, Agency, and the American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers
- Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic: Three Ways of Looking at Traumatic Memory
- Erasing Holocaust Survivors' Traumatic Memories in the Film Adaptation of The Devil's Arithmetic
- The Location of Traumatic Memory in If I Should Die Before I Wake
- The American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers
- Chapter 10: Yoshiko Uchida: Loss, Displacement, and Identity
- Chapter 11: "I Would Not Be a Pilgrim": Examining the Construction of the Muslim Child as an Authentic Witness and a Dynamic Subject in Anita Desai's The Peacock Garden
- Zuni as an Authentic Witness
- Desai's Narrator and the Creation of Zuni as a Dynamic Subject
- The Ethics of Storytelling in The Peacock Garden
- Part IV: Children as Culture-Makers: Young People, Agency, and Literary Cultures
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chapter 12: Katharine Hull, Pamela Whitlock, and the "Ransome Style"
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 21, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Conrad, Rachel Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods
- ISBN:
- 9783030353926
- 3030353923
- Publisher Number:
- 99985319323
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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