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04182aam a2200457 i 4500 001 2348D65A78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200319s2020 gau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019057951 020 $a 0820357812 020 $a 9780820357812 020 $a 0820357804 020 $a 9780820357805 035 $a (OCoLC)1143641741 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d VRC $d SILO 050 00 $a PS374.C454 $b M87 2020 082 00 $a 810.9/9282 $2 23 100 1 $a Murphy, Emily A., $d 1987- $e author. 245 10 $a Growing up with America : $b youth, myth, and national identity, 1945 to present / $c Emily A. Murphy. 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 263 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Growing Up with America is a study of the relationship between national myths and the figure of the child, using young adult literature and American studies scholarship. Murphy considers how a set of Cold War-era literary critics used the child to give shape to abstract ideas regarding national identity. Known as myth and symbol critics, they found specific recurring themes in American literature and culture they believed helped forge American national identity. While partially intended to bolster national pride during the Cold War, this myth-gathering also represented each critic's individual attempt to the answer the question: "What does it mean to be an American?" Their work was thus representative of a search for a national narrative that could satisfactorily answer this question. They drew upon cultural conceptions of childhood such as innocence and vulnerability in order to better explain the divine mission of the United States during the tumultuous post-WWII period, and, in doing so, made innocent the colonial exploits of a nation that has resisted being labeled an empire. This project therefore takes as its point of departure the creation and validation of national myths that emerged from the myth and symbol school and charts the literary response to these myths from the 1950s to the present. Murphy uses a variety of types of sources, from newspapers, to 1940s literary criticism, to American Studies scholarship, to contemporary literature. She looks at literature both produced for and by children and young adults, as well as literature which features children and young adults as main characters. Her work complicates the traditional views of children in the US in terms of race, gender, and sexuality. She pushes the boundaries of young adult literature and discusses mainstream classic and contemporary titles that feature young adults (Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita, Karen O. Russel's Swamplandia!; Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides); works published prior to the formal establishment of the YA genre (Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye); and seminal young adult books that shook the genre out of complacency (M.T. Anderson's Feed, Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes)"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Children's literature, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Young adult literature, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a National characteristics, American, in literature. 650 0 $a Children in literature. 650 0 $a Young adults in literature. 650 0 $a Child authors. 650 7 $a Child authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00854290 650 7 $a Children in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00855252 650 7 $a Children's literature, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00855882 650 7 $a National characteristics, American, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033350 650 7 $a Young adult literature, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01183139 650 7 $a Young adults in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01183237 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780820357799 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012532.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2348D65A78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search