Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods

Chapter 1 Introduction: Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods

Chapter 2 Spectacle and Parody: Burlesque Subjectivity in the American Picturebook

Chapter 3 The Self in Twentieth-Century American Children’s Literature: A Tale of Two Schemas

Chapter 4 A Subjunctive Imagining: June Jordan’s Who Look at Me and the Conditions of Black Agency

Chapter 5 Seeing Red: The Inside Nature of the Queer Outsider in Anne of Green Gables and The Well of Loneliness

Chapter 6 New Spaces and New Childhoods: Challenging Assumptions of Normative Childhood in Modernist Children’s Literature

Chapter 7 Modern Family, Modern Colonial Childhoods: Representations of Childhood and the US Military in Colonial School Literature

Chapter 8 Reading for Success: Booker T. Washington’s Pursuit of Education in Two Children’s Books

Chapter 9 “I remember. Oh, I remember”: Traumatic Memory, Agency, and the American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers

Chapter 10 Yoshiko Uchida: Loss, Displacement, and Identity

Chapter 11 “I Would Not Be a Pilgrim”: Examining the Construction of the Muslim Child as an Authentic Witness and a Dynamic Subject in Anita Desai’s The Peacock Garden

Chapter 12 Katharine Hull, Pamela Whitlock, and the “Ransome Style”

Chapter 13 Kali Grosvenor, Aurelia Davidson, and the Agency of Young Black Poets

Chapter 14 “Send it to ZOOM !”: American Children’s Television and Intergenerational Cultural Creation in the 1970s

Chapter 15 Tupac Shakur: Spoken Word Poets as Cultural Theorists