Robin Bernstein
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to...
Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Children and Youth Winner, Book Award, Childrens Literature Association Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association Winner, IRSCL Award, International Research Society for Childrens Literature RunnerUp, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association Honorable Mention, Book Award, Society for the Study of American Women Writers Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the midnineteenth century. Childrenwhite ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by itfigured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement.Bernstein takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historicallylocated practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Toms Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and...
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Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Children and Youth Winner, Book Award, Childrens Literature Association Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association Winner, IRSCL Award, International Research Society for Childrens Literature RunnerUp, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association Honorable Mention, Book Award, Society for the Study of American Women Writers Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the midnineteenth century. Childrenwhite ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by itfigured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement.Bernstein takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historicallylocated practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Toms Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and...
Binding: Paperback;330 pages; Publisher: NYU Press - IPS; Classification: JFSL3; Weight: 592 g; Dimensions: 156 x 229 x 18
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