Sara L Schwebel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara L Schwebel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwebel |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWEBEL S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sara L. Schwebel is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina. Her book Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms will be published by Vanderbilt University Press in fall 2011. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Children's Book, Nineteenth-Century News, and Multimedia Approaches to American Studies
A Children's Book, Nineteenth-Century News, and Multimedia Approaches to American Studies Sara L. Schwebel (bio) In Scott O'Dell's Newbery-winning novel Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), a twelve-year-old protagonist, Karana, flourishes on her natal island when left alone for eighteen years. This memorable children's character did not emerge from O'Dell's imagination unbidden: she is a fictionalization of the historical figure now known as the …
Child-Sized History
Rewriting the Captivity Narrative for Contemporary Children
Juxtaposing the French and Indian War stories of Elizabeth George Speare, a mid-twentieth- century Anglo-American children's author, against those of Joseph Bruchac, a twenty-first- century Abenaki children's author, reveals how flexible and powerful captivity narratives have been in shaping arguments about gender, nationhood, citizenship, and land in the postwar United States
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Child-Sized History
Rewriting the Captivity Narrative for Contemporary Children
Juxtaposing the French and Indian War stories of Elizabeth George Speare, a mid-twentieth- century Anglo-American children's author, against those of Joseph Bruchac, a twenty-first- century Abenaki children's author, reveals how flexible and powerful captivity narratives have been in shaping arguments about gender, nationhood, citizenship, and land in the postwar United States
A Children's Book, Nineteenth-Century News, and Multimedia Approaches to American Studies
A Children's Book, Nineteenth-Century News, and Multimedia Approaches to American Studies Sara L. Schwebel (bio) In Scott O'Dell's Newbery-winning novel Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), a twelve-year-old protagonist, Karana, flourishes on her natal island when left alone for eighteen years. This memorable children's character did not emerge from O'Dell's imagination unbidden: she is a fictionalization of the historical figure now known as the …
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