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Informationen zum Autor Pamela Robertson Wojcik Klappentext From the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient, mobile urban child originated and considers why it persists, even as it goes against the grain of social reality. Zusammenfassung From the early twentieth century to the present day! countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient! mobile urban child originated and considers why it persists! even as it goes against the grain of social reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping the Urban Child 1. Boys, Movies, and City Streets; or, The Dead End Kids as Modernists 2. Shirley Temple as Streetwalker: Girls, Streets, and Encounters with Men 3. Neglect at Home: Rejecting Mothers and Middle-Class Kids 4. “The Odds are Against Him”: Archives of Unhappiness among Black Urban Boys 5. Helicopters and Catastrophes: The Failure to Neglect and Neglect as Failure NotesBibliographyIndex
