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Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination
Love's Whipping Boy Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination
Author: Elizabeth Barnes
Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships bet...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807834565
ISBN-10: 0807834564
Publication Date: 3/14/2011
Pages: 224
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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