Cub Reporters
Paige Marie Gray
ISBN 10: 143847539X ISBN 13: 9781438475394
Published by State University of New York Press, 2019
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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.
About the Author: Paige Gray is Professor of Liberal Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Cub Reporters
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: HRD
Condition: New