Depicting Canada's children

Lerner, Loren R. (Loren Ruth), 1948- (Added Author).

Summary: Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the.

Record details

ISBN: 9781554582853 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1554582857 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781554580507 (bound)
ISBN: 1554580501 (bound)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxv, 438 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User OldControl:muse9781554582853 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Symbol and reality. Iconography of the child in early Quebec art / Francois-Marc Gagnou ; Shaping modern boyhood: Indian lore, child psychology, and the cultural landscape of Camp Ahmek / Abigail A. Van Slyck ; Haunted: First Nations children in residential school photography / Sherry Farrell Racette ; A land of youth: nationhood and the image of the child in the National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division / Carol Payne ; Mapping a Canadian girlhood historically through dolls and doll-play / Jaqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell -- Others and oursiders. The raw materials of empire building: depicting Canada's home children / Alena M. Buis ; Immigrants, abourers, "others": Canada's home children / Margaret McNay ; Re-visioning the girl's narrative for the 1980s: the case of the short story "Jack of Hearts" and Its film adaptation / Elspeth Tulloch ; Locating children in the discourse of squeegee kids / Derek Foster ; A child's place in Ottawa's commemorative landscape / Susan Hart.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.