Toying with Childhood : (Record no. 663764)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781003093275
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.009 USH.T
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Mudiganti, Usha,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Toying with Childhood :
Sub Title tracing the child-toy bond from Britain and America to India /
Statement of responsibility, etc Usha Mudiganti.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction -- Constructing childhoods -- Saving the child -- The child and toy bond -- Resonances and repercussions.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "This book studies the dialectic relationship between the image of the child and the toy in literary depictions of childhood in 19th and 20th century Anglo-American fiction. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, D.W. Winnicott, and Sudhir Kakar, it analyses themes such as the heterogeneity of childhood, the construction of the ideals of childhood, as well as linkages between the ideals of childhood in Britain and its travel to America and further dissemination in British India. It discusses the established tropes of childhood such as innocence, formative period, centrality of play and the presence of a toy to argue that the mores of childhood are culturally constructed and lead to the reification of a child into the image of perfection. The author debates the notion of essential innocence and highlights the repercussions of such stereotypes about childhood. The text also highlights parallels between the ideals of childhood established in 19th century Britain and the portrayals of postcolonial Indian childhoods in 20th century Indian English literature. Toying with Childhood will be useful for students and researchers of education, childhood studies, psychology, sociology, literature, gender studies, and development studies. It will also appeal to general readers interested in cultural perceptions of childhood, literary depictions of children, and the works of Sigmund Freud"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Children's literature,
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Children in literature.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Toys in literature.
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        Dept. of History Dept. of History 17/11/2022 823.009 USH.T HIS14619 17/11/2022 Reference