Educación y propaganda en los textos confederados para niños (1861-1865)

Authors

  • María Galán Universitat de València, España

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.0.18747

Keywords:

Propaganda, education, text book, children’s literature, American Civil War, Confederacy, ideology

Abstract

Texts intended for children have traditionally played a decisive role in forming the youngest minds, being often used as reinforcement for the propaganda oriented to adults. The Confederacy, in the pro- cess of building a new national identity, was aware of this influencing power. The present work analyzes what ideas used by Confederate propaganda appeared in texts addressed to children; it points which ones were aimed to the education of future citizens and which ones were meant to act as reinforcement of Confederate propaganda dis- course; what issues followed a similar line in both discourses, the one for children and the one for adults (as in the patriotic exaltation of the nation), and in which ones there was a certain breakup (defense of slavery).

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Published

2015-07-12

How to Cite

Galán, M. (2015). Educación y propaganda en los textos confederados para niños (1861-1865). EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 9, 61–71. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.0.18747
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