{"product_id":"incorrigibles-and-innocents-constructing-childhood-and-citizenship-in-progressive-era-comics-9780813591766","title":"Incorrigibles and Innocents  Constructing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in turn-of-the-century comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had the right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This engaging and sophisticated book addresses how progressive-era comics used the figure of the child as a locus of debate about gender, race, class and citizenship. Saguisag's doing a great public service to comics history here!\" -- Philip Nel * author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need fo *\u003cbr\u003e“Historians have too long ignored comic strips as source material. Lara Saguisag impeccably unpacks kid comic strips to reveal their complex discourse on childhood and citizenship in Progressive Era America.” -- Ian Gordon * author of Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon *\u003cbr\u003e“Amazing work—an invaluable contribution to scholarship at the crossroads of comics studies, childhood studies, children’s literature, and cultural and political history. I wish I had written \u003ci\u003eIncorrigibles and Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e myself—and it will definitely be in my classrooms going forward!” -- Charles Hatfield * author of Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby *\u003cbr\u003e\"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book list,\" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"Transitions: Georgia Institute of Technology Selects New Chief, CUNY York College President to Step Down,\" compiled by Julia Piper * Chronicle of Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"Saguisag’s \u003ci\u003eIncorrigibles\u003c\/i\u003e offers both a welcome glimpse into the untapped potential of early newspaper comics and an invitation to keep reading more.\" * Inks: Journal of the Comics Studies Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIncorrigibles and Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e provides an exciting model for many more reevaluations of familiar texts in comic studies. It also challenges scholars to read these popular texts in the context of the myriad other, and less known, newspaper strips or comic book series to get a true sense of the reach of the ideas and assumptions that shaped consumer and political cultures of the past.\" * H-Net *\u003cbr\u003e\"Saguisag attends rigorously to the manifold cultural, political, and economic dimensions of Progressive Era America.\" * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *\u003cbr\u003e\"Incorrigibles and Innocents is an original and welcome addition to both childhood studies and comics studies. Saguisag demonstrates that for these fields to reach their full potential, they must better account for each other.\" * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *\u003cbr\u003e\"A model for how the careful and deliberate archival study of comics can shine new light both on well-worn received histories and on the literature of the present, precisely through an appropriately unshakeable commitment to being a very serious reader of the funny pages.\" * American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"Gives a thought-provoking discussion of race, nation, gender, citizenship, and the child....Saguisag’s work in this monograph is salient and thorough. Not only this, but Saguisag’s writing is accessible, sharp, and engaging. She clearly charts the political lineages of these comics from the nineteenth century to today. In doing so, she opens avenues for scholars of many different areas within children’s literature or adjacent fields to engage with her research.\" * Research on Diversity in Youth Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Drawing the Lines\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeign Yet Familiar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrossing the Color Line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily Amusements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe “Secret Tracts” of the Child’s Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Would You Do with Girls Like These?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003eConclusion: Naughty Boys in a New Millennium\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405797302615,"sku":"9780813591766","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813591766.jpg?v=1730493652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/incorrigibles-and-innocents-constructing-childhood-and-citizenship-in-progressive-era-comics-9780813591766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}