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From Lion To Leaf: The Evacuation Of British Children To Canada During The Second World War, Claire L. Halstead
From Lion To Leaf: The Evacuation Of British Children To Canada During The Second World War, Claire L. Halstead
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From Lion to Leaf is a study of the evacuation of British children to Canada in the Second World War. While European refugee children were excluded purposely from Canada, Canadians anxiously called for Britain to send her children as a display of philanthropic, patriotic, imperial, and wartime sentiment. Yet overseas evacuation is often overshadowed, in both the historiography and social memory of the war, by Britain’s domestic evacuation. From Lion to Leaf contributes to the study of evacuation, the British home front, wartime Canada, Canadian childcare and immigration policy, and the changing British Empire. Reflecting the transnationalism of the movement, …
Childhood Innocence, Childhood Complicity, And Questions Of The Future In Mother Courage And Far Away, Tamara Spencer
Childhood Innocence, Childhood Complicity, And Questions Of The Future In Mother Courage And Far Away, Tamara Spencer
2015 Undergraduate Awards
Drawing primarily on the theoretical works of Sara Ahmed and Robin Bernstein, this paper explores how children’s complicity and victimhood in the wars within Caryl Churchill’s Far Away and Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children become symbolic of humanity’s demise. The essay uses Far Away and Mother Courage as case studies to examine broader social scripts on childhood. The paper argues that the children in each play are characterized by social expectations that children are meant to be ignorant to the worlds around them, as well as embodiments of the hope that the future will be better than the …