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Suffering Childhood in Early America - Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim (Hardcover, New)
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Suffering Childhood in Early America - Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim (Hardcover, New)
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This book offers a compelling look at the use of childhood as
metaphor in early America. Nothing tugs on American heartstrings
more than an image of a suffering child. Anna Mae Duane goes back
to the nation's violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of
childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of
ethnicity, race, and gender. Duane argues that children had long
been used to symbolize subservience, but in the New World those old
associations took on more meaning. Drawing on a wide range of early
American writing, she explores how the figure of a suffering child
accrued political weight as the work of infantilization connected
the child to Native Americans, slaves, and women. In the making of
the young nation, the figure of the child emerged as a vital
conceptual tool for coming to terms with the effects of cultural
and colonial violence, and with time childhood became freighted
with associations of vulnerability, suffering, and victimhood that
shaped the perception of childhood itself: as a site of
vulnerability, suffering, and victimhood. As Duane looks at how
ideas about the child and childhood were manipulated by the
colonizers and the colonized alike, she reveals a powerful line of
colonizing logic in which dependence and vulnerability are assigned
great emotional weight. When early Americans sought to make sense
of intercultural contact - and the conflict that often resulted -
they used the figure of the child to help displace their own fear
of lost control and shifting power.
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