Anna Mae Duane

Broschiertes Buch

Suffering Childhood in Early America

Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim

Beschreibung

Anna Mae Duane goes back to the US's violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity, race, and gender. She argues that children had long been used to symbolize subservience, but in the New World those old associations took on more meaning. Drawing on a wide range of early American writing, she explores how the figure of a suffering child accrued political weight as the work of infantilization connected the child to Native Americans, slaves, and women.

Autor

ANNA MAE DUANE is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim (Georgia) and Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780820340586
• ISBN-10: 0820340588
• Artikelnr.: 34444488