Introduction: Think Locally, Swing Globally: The Adventures of Tarzan from American Ape-man to International Icon Annette Wannamaker and Michelle Ann Abate I. Tarzan as U.S. Cultural Export 1. "An Axe in the Hands of a Burly Negro Cleft the Captain from Forehead to Chin": Tarzan of the Apes and the American Urban Jungle Michelle Ann Abate 2. "Now Tarzan Make War!": World War II Tarzan films, profits and propaganda Annette Wannamaker 3. Tarzan Swings onto Disney's Broadway Ken CernigliaII. Global Contexts 4. Return to Tarzan: Rereading a Canadian Childhood Favorite Jon C. Stott 5. "Tarzan under Attack: Youth, Comics, and Cultural Reconstruction in Postwar France" Richard Ivan Jobs 6. Contending Simulacra: Tarzan in Postcolonial India Ronnie Parciack 7. With a Star of David he Swings: Tarzan in the Holy Land Alon Raab and Eli Eshed III. Global issues 8. "We Would Each Like to Be Like Tarzan": Re-Examining Female Readers of Burroughs’ Tarzan Series Clare Mulcahy 9. On the Origin of Men: Boyhood, Darwinism and Tarzan of the ApesMichelle Smith 10. Evolution and Race on the Island of Caspak: How Tarzan and T-Rex Decode Manhood in the Comic that Time Forgot Aaron Clayton
Annette Wannamaker is an associate professor at Eastern Michigan University. She is North American Editor of Children's Literature in Education, author of Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child (2008), and editor of Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens and Young Men in Popular Culture and Media (2010). Michelle Ann Abate is an associate professor of English at Hollins University. Michelle is the author of the books Raising Your Kids Right: Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism (2010) and Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History (2008). Also, with Kenneth B. Kidd, she co-edited the collection Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature (2011).
'Highly recommended. In the past few years, Tarzan has been resurrected as a subject of serious scholarship... This is a welcome, important addition to cultural studies.' G.R. Butters Jr., CHOICE magazine
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