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Slave Narratives on Slave Childhood

Authors: Bubíková Šárka

Year: 2011

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
xxx	Slave Narratives on Slave Childhood	In the recent decades, there is a growing body of scholarly research concerning childhood, the concepts, experiences, realities, and myths of growing up. Many cultural historians and theoreticians of American culture agree that the figure of a child holds an important position in American culture since the early times of its formation. Based on the study of slave narratives, the paper discussed how slavery influenced childhood, or, in other words, what it was like to grow up a slave, and contrasted the reality of slave childhood with the period’s idealization of the state of childhood, a contrast that was successfully used in combating “that peculiar institution.” The paper pointed out some of the most popular usages of the image of enslaved child (both literary and visual) to add the abolitionist cause.	Slave; Narratives; Slave; Childhood