Incorrigibles and Innocents : Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics
Lara Saguisag;Lara Saguisag
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Nominated for Eisner Award | Winner of the 2018 Ray and Pat Browne Award | Winner of t...
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Incorrigibles and Innocents : Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics
2019
Nominated for Eisner Award | Winner of the 2018 Ray and Pat Browne Award | Winner of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the CSS Histories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity, class, and gender were expressed, perpetuated, and alleviated. The proliferation of comic strip children—white and nonwhite, middle-class and lower class, male and female—suggests that childhood was a subject that fascinated and preoccupied Americans at the turn of the century. Many of these strips, including R.F. Outcault's Hogan's Alley and Buster Brown, Rudolph Dirks's The Katzenjammer Kids and Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland were headlined by child characters. Yet no major study has explored the significance of these verbal-visual representations of childhood. Incorrigibles and Innocents addresses this gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips. Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had a right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.
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Children in literature - Comic books, strips, etc.--United States--History and criticism - Literature and society--United States--History - Citizenship in literatureContent provider:
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Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
Elina Druker;Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer;Elina Druker;Bettina Kümmerling-Me...
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the int...
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Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
2015; Vol. 00005
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children's literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children's books from Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA, the individual chapters explore the historical as well as the cultural and political aspects that determine the exceptional character of avant-garde children's books. Drawing on studies in children's literature research, art history, and cultural studies, this volume provides comprehensive insights into the close relationships between avant-garde children's literature, images of childhood, and contemporary ideas of education. Addressing topics such as the impact of exhibitions, the significance of the Bauhaus, and the influence of poster art and graphic design, the book illustrates the broad range of issues associated with avant-garde children's books. More than 60 full-color illustrations demonstrate the impressive variety of design in avant-garde picturebooks and children's books.
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Literature, Experimental--History and criticism - Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--21st century - Children's literature--History and criticism - Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Dance and American Art : A Long Embrace
Sharyn R. Udall;Sharyn R. Udall
From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have alway...
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Dance and American Art : A Long Embrace
2012
From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Mississippi riverboats, or in the streets. Dance and American Art is an innovative look at the elusive, evocative nature of dance and the American visual artists who captured it through their paintings, sculpture, photography, and prints from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The scores of artists discussed include many icons of American art: Winslow Homer, George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Edward Steichen, David Smith, and others. As a subject for visual artists, dance has given new meaning to America's perennial myths, cherished identities, and most powerful dreams. Their portrayals of dance and dancers, from the anonymous to the famous—Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, Josephine Baker, Martha Graham—have testified to the enduring importance of spatial organization, physical pattern, and rhythmic motion in creating aesthetic form. Through extensive research, sparkling prose, and beautiful color reproductions, art historian Sharyn R. Udall draws attention to the ways that artists'portrayals of dance have defined the visual character of the modern world and have embodied culturally specific ideas about order and meaning, about the human body, and about the diverse fusions that comprise American culture.
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Art, American--Themes, motives - Dance in artContent provider:
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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan;Emer O'Sullivan
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fai...
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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
2010; Vol. 00046
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.
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Children's literature--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries - Children's literature--History and criticism--DictionariesContent provider:
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Word Myths : Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
David Wilton;David Wilton
Do you'know'that posh comes from an acronym meaning'port out, starboard home'? That'th...
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Word Myths : Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
2004
Do you'know'that posh comes from an acronym meaning'port out, starboard home'? That'the whole nine yards'comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That Chicago is called'The Windy City'because of the bloviating habits of its politicians, and not the breeze off the lake? If so, you need this book. David Wilton debunks the most persistently wrong word histories, and gives, to the best of our actual knowledge, the real stories behind these perennially mis-etymologized words. In addition, he explains why these wrong stories are created, disseminated, and persist, even after being corrected time and time again. What makes us cling to these stories, when the truth behind these words and phrases is available, for the most part, at any library or on the Internet? Arranged by chapters, this book avoids a dry A-Z format. Chapters separate misetymologies by kind, including The Perils of Political Correctness (picnics have nothing to do with lynchings), Posh, Phat Pommies (the problems of bacronyming--the desire to make every word into an acronym), and CANOE (which stands for the Conspiracy to Attribute Nautical Origins to Everything). Word Myths corrects long-held and far-flung examples of wrong etymologies, without taking the fun out of etymology itself. It's the best of both worlds: not only do you learn the many wrong stories behind these words, you also learn why and how they are created--and what the real story is.
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Language and languages--Folklore - English language--EtymologyContent provider:
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A Spy in the Enemy's Country : The Emergence of Modern Black Literature
Donald A. Petesch;Donald A. Petesch
This dynamic study provides a rich intellectual and historical background for understa...
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A Spy in the Enemy's Country : The Emergence of Modern Black Literature
1989
This dynamic study provides a rich intellectual and historical background for understanding the works of black American writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with a look at early slave narratives, Donald Petesch examines how these writings reflect the conditions imposed upon their authors and goes on to explore the shifting and often contradictory black/white consciousness that was emerging in the twentieth century. Moving into the Harlem Renaissance, Petesch considers the implications of the historical and social contexts for a number of black authors. This closely focused look at a group of writers who represent both the emergence of modern black literature and the Harlem Renaissance, coupled with the keen examination of the historical and social conditions that shaped them, will be valuable reading for all students of black literature and history, intellectual history, and popular culture.
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American literature--African American authors--History and criticism - African Americans--Intellectual lifeContent provider:
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Twentieth-Century Children's Writers.
Kirkpatrick, D. L.
Cameron, Ann M.
Writer Bertha Upton and her artist daughter Florence Upton occupy a controversial plac...
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Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2023. 1p.
Writer Bertha Upton and her artist daughter Florence Upton occupy a controversial place in the history of children’s literature as the creators of a series of books about the Golliwogg . Inspired originally by a old, battered, black rag doll , the Golliwogg became the extremely popular hero of a series of books chronicling his adventures with five wooden Dutch dolls in adventures around the world. The Golliwogg ’s place in literary history has been tarnished by later black caricatures of the character that have raised objections similar to those leveled at the American caricature of Little Black Sambo.
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