Incorrigibles and Innocents : Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics / Lara Saguisag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saguisag, Lara, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Children in literature.

Citizenship in literature.

Literature and society--United States--History.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 236 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Histories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity, class, and gender were expressed, perpetuated, and alleviated. The proliferation of comic strip children-white and nonwhite, middle-class and lower class, male and female-suggests that childhood was a subject that fascinated and preoccupied Americans at the turn of the century. Many of these strips, including R.F. Outcault's Hogan's Alley and Buster Brown, Rudolph Dirks's The Katzenjammer Kids and Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland were headlined by child characters. Yet no major study has explored the significance of these verbal-visual representations of childhood. Incorrigibles and Innocents addresses this gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips. Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had a right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. FOREIGN YET FAMILIAR

Chapter 2. CROSSING THE COLOR LINE

Chapter 3. FAMILY AMUSEMENTS

Chapter 4. THE "SECRET TRACTS" OF THE CHILD'S MIND

Chapter 5. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH GIRLS LIKE THESE?

CONCLUSION. Naughty Boys in a New Millennium

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-9180-5

OCLC:

1121056043