Child Savage 1890-2010

This volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media including films textbooks children's literature periodicals comic strips children's radio toys and digital games. In particular the collection takes up the important questions of how the trope of the child savage is fleshed out from one medium to another and what cultural social and political functions it fulfills on diverse occasions.