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Empire's Nursery - Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century (Hardcover)
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Empire's Nursery - Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century (Hardcover)
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How children and children's literature helped build America's
empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential
to its creation. Through children's literature, authors instilled
the idea of America's power and the importance of its global
prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp
magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire,
they helped entrench a growing belief in America's indispensability
to the international order. Empires more generally require stories
to justify their existence. Children's literature seeded among
young people a conviction that their country's command of a
continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability.
This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive
agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly
nonthreatening nature of the child and children's literature
thereby helped to disguise dominion's unsavory nature. The modern
era has been called both the "American Century" and the "Century of
the Child." Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations
came together by depicting children in their influential role as
the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.
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