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The Play World - Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood (Paperback)
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The Play World - Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood (Paperback)
Series: Max Kade Research Institute
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The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept
of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys
coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson
argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures
were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities
of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to
the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers
prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their
possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration
of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys-among them
a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus
figures-as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach
that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she
makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play
into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as
German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened
parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies,
children's almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys,
Simpson's argument follows a compelling path toward understanding
the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national,
and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe,
that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational
and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities
across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology
of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German
studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.
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