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Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination - From Patriots to Victims (Paperback)
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Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination - From Patriots to Victims (Paperback)
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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When we hear the term ""child soldiers"", most Americans imagine
innocent victims roped into bloody conflicts in distant war-torn
lands like Sudan and Sierra Leone. Yet our own history is filled
with examples of children involved in warfare - from adolescent
prisoner of war Andrew Jackson to Civil War drummer boys - who were
once viewed as symbols of national pride rather than signs of human
degradation. In this daring new study, anthropologist David M.
Rosen investigates why our cultural perception of the child soldier
has changed so radically over the past two centuries. Child
Soldiers in the Western Imagination reveals how Western conceptions
of childhood as a uniquely vulnerable and innocent state are a
relatively recent invention. Furthermore, Rosen offers an
illuminating history of how human rights organizations drew upon
these sentiments to create the very term ""child soldier"", which
they presented as the embodiment of war's human cost. Filled with
shocking historical accounts and facts - and revealing the reasons
why one cannot spell ""infantry"" without ""infant"" - Child
Soldiers in the Western Imagination seeks to shake us out of our
pervasive historical amnesia. It challenges us to stop looking at
child soldiers through a biased set of idealized assumptions about
childhood, so that we can better address the realities of
adolescents and pre-adolescents in combat. Presenting informative
facts while examining fictional representations of the child
soldier in popular culture, this book is both eye-opening and
thought-provoking.
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