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SUMMARY:“Some of your father's miserable Yankee notions&quot\;: Racial a
 nxieties in Annie Fellows Johnston's The Little Colonel - Dawn Sardella-Ay
 res\, Faculty of Education
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DTEND:20140129T140000Z
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CONTACT:J. Gilevskaja
DESCRIPTION:Despite initial popularity\, Annie Fellows Johnston's Little C
 olonel books are conspicuously missing from children's literature discours
 e today. With problematic racist portrayals of the post-Reconstruction Sou
 th\, it is easy to understand why they might be considered devalued texts.
  In my paper\, I examine the collective cultural inheritance in the first 
 book\, The Little Colonel (1895)\, focused on the complicated racial anxie
 ty communicated in the character of Lloyd Sherman. By examining issues of 
 gender and race exemplified the “Little Colonel” character\, my study 
 explores the book's problematic portrayals of girlhood\, gender roles\, na
 tionality\, whiteness and blackness. By evoking Uncle Tom's Cabin\, Lloyd 
 enacts racial transgression via tomboyism and her unpunished fits of tempe
 r. Her hybridity allows Lloyd to initially ignore class- and racial bounda
 ries\, but also exposes nationalistic anxieties as she\, along with her So
 uthern mother and Yankee father\, are reintegrated into her Southern Colon
 el grandfather's life and home.
LOCATION:Room 2S5\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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