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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"American -- History and criticism"”.
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Social class depiction in selected award-winning children's narrative fiction
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Racial prejudice toward Asian Americans in U.S. children's literature.
This study examined racial prejudice in American children's books toward Asian Americans. The sample consisted of contemporary and historical fiction books for children in two age groups: preschool through grade three and grades four through six, which are listed under Asian American fiction …
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A knocking at the door : Christian hope in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
… This paradox occasions an exploration of horror and Christian hope in his fiction. The appeal of supernatural horror fiction in a culture which denies the supernatural demonstrates the fascinating nature of objects of Christian hope, even when represented as frightening or revolting. Lovecraft's …
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Black aesthetics in children's literature
… research is to show that although many African American children’s books have been used as “race texts” to give children insight into race relations of the past, many are important in that they preserve the Black dialect and encourage child activism and social change. Black aesthetics are most …
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"Friends and foes on the battlefield": A study of Chinese and U.S. youth literature about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
In order to understand how postwar generations’ understanding of the history of World War II has been shaped by the information sources made available to them, this dissertation examines the representation of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45)—fought between Imperial Japan and China, with U.S. as the …
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Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives.
… Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society but also the level of calumny that society assigns to a crime. As each generation has needed a particular set of qualities in its defense, so the detective has provided them. Through the detective's …