Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World / / edited by Simon Sleight, Shirleene Robinson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254776603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• ISBN: 9781137489418; 1137489413
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, , 2634-6540
• Disciplina: 305.230941
• Soggetti: Civilization - History; Great Britain - History; Imperialism; Social history; World history; Cultural History; History of Britain and Ireland; Imperialism and Colonialism; Social History; World History, Global and Transnational History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The World in Miniature; Part I: Children and Adults; 1 A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature; 2 Ayah, Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children, c. 1750-1947; 3 Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation and Truby King's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa; Part II: Rites of Passage; 4 'He is hardened to the climate & a little bleached by it's [sic] influence': Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800-1830; 5 'Dear Mummy and Daddy': Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War6 East African Students in a (Post-)Imperial World; Part III: Indigenous ; Experiences; 7 Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australia; 8 Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal; 9 Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908-1920; Part IV: Literary Childhoods; 10 Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children's Literature, 1862-189911 The 'Willful' Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872-1923; Part V: Youth and Sexuality; 12 Boys and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890-1914; 13 Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl ; Part VI: Children's Empires and Material Cultures; 14 Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880-1914; 15 Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the MuseumBibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world.

Culture’s Futures : Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture / / by Eric Aronoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910983355603321
• Autore: Aronoff Eric
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025
• ISBN: 9783031804304; 3031804309
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2025.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 pages)
• Disciplina: 813.0876209
• Soggetti: Literary form; Anthropology; Ethnology; Literary Genre; Ethnography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Introduction: Science Fiction, Anthropology and the Problem of Culture -- Chapter 2: Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Modernist Anthropology and the Idea of Culture -- Chapter 3: Well-Wrought Cultures and Carrier Bags: Forms of Culture in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home -- Chapter 4: Captivity, Conversion, Culture: Octavia E. Butler’s Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy -- Chapter 5: Resisting Culture: Culture and/as Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms -- Chapter 6: Coda: Culture’s Futures.
• Sommario/riassunto: “Culture’s Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture is a brilliant work of interdisciplinary scholarship. Aronoff addresses a gap in scholarship on science fiction and anthropology by illustrating the complex ways in which both develop their poetics in relation to one another. The book promises to become the standard reference for future scholars exploring the development of social science fiction after 1945.” —Leif Sorensen, Colorado State University, United States This ; book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over “culture” and narrative form from the modernist period to the present. Both science fiction and the anthropological ethnography, in their modernist forms and post-modern/postcolonial reinventions, are intertwined technologies for constructing “culture” and difference through narrative worldbuilding. This book traces the ways SF authors – including Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Octavia E. Butler, as well as Indigenous futurists Craig Strete, Celu Amberstone, Rebecca Roanhorse and Cherie Dimaline – have deployed, interrogated and revised these models of “culture,” representation and power to imagine new futures. Eric Aronoff is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Residential College of Arts and Humanitiesat Michigan State University, USA. His areas of expertise are modernist American literature and criticism, anthropology and literature, and theories of culture, as well as science fiction. Eric also has strong research interests in literature and the environment. His work has appeared in journals such as MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Genre and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Eric’s first book, Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies and the Problem of Culture was published in 2013.