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Hakala, Laura Anne.

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Protecting Dixie: Southern girlhood in children's literature, 1852-1920.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Protecting Dixie: Southern girlhood in children's literature, 1852-1920./
Author:	Hakala, Laura Anne.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	283 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International77-03A.
Subject:	Womens studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3713905
ISBN:	9781321907216

Protecting Dixie: Southern girlhood in children's literature, 1852-1920.
Hakala, Laura Anne.

Protecting Dixie: Southern girlhood in children's literature, 1852-1920. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 283 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Southern Mississippi, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Most scholarship about girlhood in children's literature tends to rely on national models of girlhood. My project complicates those models by demonstrating how region shapes distinct forms of American girlhood. In particular, I examine representations of southern girlhood in children's literature published between 1852 and 1920, drawing on the four types of literature that most featured southern girls during this time period: abolitionist literature, Confederate literature, postbellum plantation fiction, and family stories. Using a historicist methodology and spatial analysis, I place these texts in relation to information about the spatial arrangements and protocols of southern domestic sites. By viewing girlhood in terms of how girls move within and use these domestic spaces, I argue that children's writers construct southern girls as the protectors of the antebellum South. Girls offer forms of protection that play a crucial role in preserving, strengthening, and romanticizing southern antebellum values. In some instances, children's authors suggest that girls can protect the South and preserve southern cultural ideals in ways that men, women, or boys cannot. By privileging the contributions of girls over those of adults, children's books disrupt the barrier between adult/child in order to maintain other hierarchies central to white southern lifestyles, such as master/slave, white/black, and rural/urban. As a result, these fictional girls reconfigure ideas about age and gender to protect racial and agrarian systems. This regional lens illustrates how American girlhood is not a monolithic category, and my project provides a more diverse approach to understanding the varied ways children's writers represent girls.

ISBN: 9781321907216Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122688
Womens studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Children's literature

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