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Nature, nurture, nation : = Race and childhood in transatlantic American discourses of slavery.

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Title/Author:	Nature, nurture, nation :/
Reminder of title:	Race and childhood in transatlantic American discourses of slavery.
Author:	Hodgson, Lucia.
Description:	1 online resource (280 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-08, Section: A, page: 3005.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-08A.
Subject:	American literature. -
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ISBN:	9781109292763

Nature, nurture, nation : = Race and childhood in transatlantic American discourses of slavery.
Hodgson, Lucia.

Nature, nurture, nation :Race and childhood in transatlantic American discourses of slavery. - 1 online resource (280 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-08, Section: A, page: 3005.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references

By the 1850s, the analogy between African-American slaves and children had become a truism, so embedded in American culture and so ubiquitous that it effectively eluded interrogation. This dissertation argues that the slave/child analogy has roots in the adaptation of the political, epistemological and educational writings of John Locke to the British American colonial context, that it was crucial to transatlantic American discourses of race and slavery from the Revolution to the Civil War, and that it configured and racialized American representations of the child during the same period. This project illustrates how the representation of slave subjectivity in American textual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries mirrors (and distorts) three key facets of modern childhood: its incapacity for reasoned consent, its position on the border of the human/animal divide, and its malleability. Historically, the slave/child analogy has helped to justify the slave's exclusion from political participation and national belonging and to naturalize his/her subjection to absolute authority and to disciplinary educational practices. At the same time, the analogy produces instability and dissonance that facilitate the deconstruction of dominant ideologies of race, gender and class. The figure of the slave child, in particular, crystallizes the illogic and incoherence of the analogy.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781109292763Subjects--Topical Terms:

685398
American literature.
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554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a In the Revolutionary Era, the slave/child analogy facilitated the colonial bid for independence from imperial control, while its overtly racialized form, the Negro/child analogy, supported an inferior political status for subjects of African descent in the new nation. In the decades immediately following the Revolution, the analogy was transformed by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, becoming infused with an early Romantic primitivism. The idealization of the primitive inverted the Lockean binaries that underwrote imperialism, providing a mechanism for transatlantic writers to question American slavery and racial ideology. By the early nineteenth century, however, American Romantic idealizations of Africans and children laid the groundwork for the emergence of racist science and the endurance of American white supremacy. Authors considered in this study include Thomas Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley, William Blake, Olaudah Equiano, Ann Taylor, Jesse Torrey, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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