Cradle of liberty : race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois / / Caroline F. Levander
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| Autore: |
Levander Caroline Field <1964->
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| Titolo: |
Cradle of liberty : race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois / / Caroline F. Levander
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.23089/00973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Children's rights - United States |
| Children in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Ethnic relations |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-237) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : natal nationalism ; the place of the child in American cultural studies -- The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- Transnational Twain -- Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- Raceless states: W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S. national belonging. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cradle of liberty |
| ISBN: | 0-8223-8835-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825291003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.