| Series |
Children and youth in popular culture
Children and youth in popular culture. ^A1289617
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| 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 -- Homecoming : finding (and losing) the American child / 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 -- Fear of science in the Cold War and the unknown childhood : the It's alive trilogy / Erika Tiburcio Moreno -- Four little activists : the death of Black childhood innocence in Spike Lee's Little Girls / Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. -- Technically I'm 112 : youth and darkness in Avatar: the Last Airbender / Colleen Etman. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Childhood and innocence in American culture Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] 9781666940268 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2023021639 |
| ISBN | 9781666940251 |
| ISBN | 1666940259 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
