Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim
ISBN-13:
9780820333830
ISBN-10:
0820333832
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Anna Mae Duane
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Children's Studies
,
Social Sciences
,
Violence in Society
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ISBN-13:
9780820333830
ISBN-10:
0820333832
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Anna Mae Duane
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Children's Studies
,
Social Sciences
,
Violence in Society
Summary
Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim (ISBN-13: 9780820333830 and ISBN-10: 0820333832), written by authors
Anna Mae Duane, was published by University of Georgia Press in 2010.
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Nothing tugs on American heartstrings more than an image of a suffering child. Anna Mae Duane goes back to the nation’s violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity, race, and gender. Duane 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.In the making of the young nation, the figure of the child emerged as a vital conceptual tool for coming to terms with the effects of cultural and colonial violence, and with time childhood became freighted with associations of vulnerability, suffering, and victimhood. As Duane looks at how ideas about the child and childhood were manipulated by the colonizers and the colonized alike, she reveals a powerful line of colonizing logic in which dependence and vulnerability are assigned great emotional weight. When early Americans sought to make sense of intercultural contact―and the conflict that often resulted―they used the figure of the child to help displace their own fear of lost control and shifting power.
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