Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods

Rachel Conrad is Professor of Childhood Studies at Hampshire College, USA. She is the author of Time for Childhoods: Young Poets and Questions of Agency, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in their new series “Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth.” L. Brown Kennedy is Professor of Literature, Emerita, at Hampshire College, USA.

• 1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Cultures and Twentieth Century Childhoods;Rachel Conrad and L. Brown Kennedy.- 2. Chapter 2: Spectacle and Parody: Burlesque Subjectivity in the American Picturebook;William Moebius.- 3. Chapter 3: The Self in Twentieth Century Children’s Literature: A Tale of Two Schemas;Karen Coats.- 4. Chapter 4: A Subjunctive Imagining: June Jordan’s Who Look at Me and the Conditions of Black Agency;Kevin Quashie and Amy Fish.- 5. Chapter 5: Seeing Red: The Inside Nature of the Queer Outsider in Anne of Green Gables and The Well of Loneliness;Holly Blackford.- 6. Chapter 6: New Spaces and New Childhoods: Challenging Assumptions of Normative Childhood in Modernist Children’s Literature;Aneesh Barai.- 7. Chapter 7: Modern Family, Modern Colonial Childhoods: Representations of Childhood and the U.S. Military in Colonial School Literature;Solsiree del Moral.- 8. Chapter 8: Reading for Success: Booker T. Washington’s Pursuit of Education in Two Children’s Books;Karen Chandler.- 9. Chapter 9: "I remember. Oh, I remember": Traumatic Memory, Agency, and the American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers;Adrienne Kertzer.- 10. Chapter 10: Yoshiko Uchida: Loss, Displacement, and Identity;Amanda C. Seaman.- 11. Chapter 11: “I Would Not Be a Pilgrim”: Examining the Construction of the Muslim Child as an Authentic Witness and a Dynamic Subject in Anita Desai’s The Peacock Garden;Nithya Sivashankar.- 12. Chapter 12: Katharine Hull, Pamela Whitlock, and the “Ransome Style”;Victoria Ford Smith.- 13. Chapter 13: Kali Grosvenor, Aurelia Davidson, and the Agency of Young Black Poets;Rachel Conrad and Cai Sherley.- 14. Chapter 14: “Send it to ZOOM!”: American Children’s Television and Intergenerational Cultural Creation in the 1970s;Leslie Paris.- 15. Chapter 15: Tupac Shakur: SpokenWord Poets as Cultural Theorists;Awad Ibrahim.