Childhood and innocence in American culture : heartaches and nightmares / edited by James M. Curtis.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]
  • ©2023
Description
viii, 174 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Children and youth in popular culture [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of "childhood"-one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of "innocence.""-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : the death of childhood / James M. Curtis
    • The domesticated adventuress : Dorothy Gale, Ozma of Oz, and the pitfalls of princess-hood / Rodney Marcel Fierce
    • 'A place for you' : subjectivity and representation in The Brownies Book / James M. Curtis
    • Finding (and losing) the American child : interiority ad the wilderness of the self in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Cycle / Rebecca Long
    • 'Growing up too fast, too soon' : the child prodigy in late postmodernist literature / Oliver J. Hancock
    • In support of idyllic childhood : how book challenges reveal American views on childhood and adolescent innocence in the 1980s and into the 21st Century / Sarah K. Mazur
    • Unknown childhoods and the fear of science in the Cold War : the It's alive trilogy / Erika Tiburcio Moreno
    • Four little activists : the death of Black childhood innocence in Spike Lee's 4 Little Girls / Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
    • Technically I'm 112 : youth and darkness in Avatar: the Last Airbender / Colleen Etman.
    ISBN
    • 9781666940251 (hardcover)
    • 1666940259 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2023021639
    OCLC
    1381122107
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