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Cub Reporters: American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age

Cub Reporters: American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age

Gray, Paige Marie

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Literary Criticism19th Century United States History20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1438475403
ISBN13: 9781438475400
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 1 2020
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children's literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children's literature of this time, including works from such writers as L. Frank Baum, Horatio Alger Jr., and Richard Harding Davis, as well as unique journalistic examples including the children's page of the Chicago Defender, subverts the idea of news. In these works, journalism is not a reporting of fact, but a reporting of artifice, or human-made apparatus-artistic, technological, psychological, cultural, or otherwise. Using a methodology that combines approaches from literary analysis, historicism, cultural studies, media studies, and childhood studies, Paige Gray shows how the cub reporters of children's literature report the truth of artifice and relish it. They signal an embrace of artifice as a means to access individual agency, and in doing so, both child and adult readers are encouraged to deconstruct and create the world anew.

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