Child soldiers in the Western imagination : from patriots to victims

著者

• Rosen, David M.

書誌事項

Child soldiers in the Western imagination : from patriots to victims

David M. Rosen

（The Rutgers series in childhood studies）

Rutgers University Press, c2015

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

When we hear the term "child soldiers," most Americans imagine innocent victims roped into bloody conflicts in distant war-torn lands like Sudan and Sierra Leone. Yet our own history is filled with examples of children involved in warfare-from adolescent prisoner of war Andrew Jackson to Civil War drummer boys-who were once viewed as symbols of national pride rather than signs of human degradation. In this daring new study, anthropologist David M. Rosen investigates why our cultural perception of the child soldier has changed so radically over the past two centuries. Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination reveals how Western conceptions of childhood as a uniquely vulnerable and innocent state are a relatively recent invention. Furthermore, Rosen offers an illuminating history of how human rights organizations drew upon these sentiments to create the very term "child soldier," which they presented as the embodiment of war's human cost. Filled with shocking historical accounts and facts-and revealing the reasons why one cannot spell "infantry" without "infant"-Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination seeks to shake us out of our pervasive historical amnesia. It challenges us to stop looking at child soldiers through a biased set of idealized assumptions about childhood, so that we can better address the realities of adolescents and pre-adolescents in combat. Presenting informative facts while examining fictional representations of the child soldier in popular culture, this book is both eye-opening and thought-provoking.

目次

Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1-A Tale of Two Orphans Chapter 2-The Struggle over Recruitment Chapter 3-Child Soldiers in World War II Chapter 4-The Child Soldier in Popular Culture Chapter 5-Modern Child Soldiers Chapter 6-The Politics and Culture of Childhood Vulnerability Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB22698528
• ISBN:
  • 9780813563701
• LCCN: 2014049320
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New Brunswick, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 238 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : UB418.C45
  • DC23 : 355.0083
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Child soldiers
  • LCSH : Children and war
  • LCSH : Child soldiers -- History
  • LCSH : Children and war -- History
  • LCSH : Child soldiers -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Children and war -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Childhood -- Cross-cultural studies
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA6357275X