Curious about George : Curious George, cultural icons, colonialism, and US exceptionalism /

Curious about George : Curious George, cultural icons, colonialism, and US exceptionalism / Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre.

"In 1940, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey built two bikes, packed what they could, and fled wartime Paris. Among the possessions they escaped with was a manuscript that would later become one of the most celebrated books in children's literature-Curious George. Since his debut in 1941, th...

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Main Author: Schwartz-DuPre, Rae Lynn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Series:Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Subjects:
Rey, Margret > Criticism and interpretation.
Rey, H. A. > (Hans Augusto), > 1898-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Curious George > (Fictitious character).
Rey, H. A. > (Hans Augusto), > 1898-1977.
Rey, Margret.
Children's literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Children's literature.
Curious George (Fictitious character)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: curious about George
  • Curious George, cultural icons, and colonialism
  • Curious George explores the diaspora: postcolonial children's literary criticism
  • George teaches science: postcolonial science and STEM-based US leadership
  • Curious George escapes the Holocaust: postcolonial nostalgia, re-articulating World War II, and the erasure of George's enslavement
  • Curious conclusions.

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