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12019-07-16T10:15:28+00:00Commentary: Essay and Podcast12Karen Sánchez-Eppler Commentaryplain2022-09-06T14:56:18+00:00Summary
A group of boys in 1890s New Hampshire played at writing, editing, and publishing a manuscript magazine about an elaborate fictional world based on their own back yard. Their writing deftly mimicked the real world of children's periodicals -- and unwittingly illuminated the violent social reality young white men were entering in the U.S. of the late nineteenth century.
Download entire essay as PDFKaren Sánchez-Eppler discusses the boys' magazine in this episode of our podcast series, Listening to Hidden Literacies.