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''What should we do in America?'': Immigrant Economies in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Fiction.
- Source :
- International Research in Children's Literature; 2011, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p59-72, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This essay examines narratives about immigrants in a sampling of nineteenth-century American children's texts and grows out of my work on reform writing by major women authors. Many of the stories they published in the leading children's periodicals seem to welcome the immigrant contributor to American society even as they defined that immigrant's place in economic/class structures. The goal of this paper is to trace certain strains of the systematic discipline by which American culture tried to manage the immigrant in terms of class. I therefore consider the role of economics in immigrant stories written for children by a number of American women writers, with analyses of the ways in which these stories situate the dependent and independent immigrant in the marketplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17556198
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Research in Children's Literature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 60908273
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2011.0007