How the West Was Fun
Children's Literature and Frontier Mythmaking toward the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3340876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Rouleau (0000-0001-5401-2240, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-74 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/whq/whz099 |
| OpenAlex | W2996972036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article discusses the important role that juvenile literature played in creating America's frontier mythos. It argues that children were a crucial audience for adult authors seeking to justify and normalize settler colonial policies. But, more importantly, young people themselves were active participants in the perpetuation of a popular culture that glorified westward expansion and the eradication of Indigenous peoples. In acknowledging as much, we arrive at a richer understanding of the important intersections between western history and the history of childhood in the United States
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Frontier · Indigenous · Juvenile · Political science · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · American Literature and Culture · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |