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

Other author	Curtis, James M., 1984
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Description	viii, 174 pages 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Children's stories, American--History and criticism. Children in literature Innocence (Psychology) in literature Children in popular culture--United States. Children--United States. --Social conditions.

Series	Children and youth in popular culture
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.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2023021639
ISBN	9781666940251 cloth
ISBN	ebook

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