The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813532221 ISBN 13 : 9780813532226

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2003

Synopsis

From the time that the infant colonies broke away from the parent country to the present day, narratives of U.S. national identity are persistently configured in the language of childhood and family. In The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader, contributors address matters of race, gender, and family in order to chart the ways that representations of the child typify historical periods and conflicting ideologies. They build on the recent critical renaissance in childhood studies by bringing to their essays a wide range of critical practices and methodologies. Although the volume is grounded heavily in the literary, it draws on various other disciplines, revealing that representations of children and childhood are not isolated artifacts but cultural productions that in turn affect the social climates around them. Essayists look at games, pets, adolescent sexuality, death, family relations and key texts such as The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, and the movie Pocahontas to reveal the myriad ways in which the figure of the child operates as a rich vehicle for writers and social commentators to consider evolving ideas of nation and the diverse roles of citizens within it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Caroline F. Levander is an associate professor of English at Rice University and author of Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. Carol J. Singley is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University in Camden. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813532221
• ISBN 13: 9780813532226
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Levander Caroline F., Singley Carol J.
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• Personne responsable: non disponible