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Child Journalists, the Civil War, and the Intersectional Work of Reporting Grief
Author(s) -
Sara R. Danger
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of juvenilia studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2561-8326
pISSN - 2561-8318
DOI - 10.29173/jjs62
Subject(s) - brother , kaleidoscope , silence , journalism , gender studies , media studies , spanish civil war , performative utterance , sociology , grief , history , political science , visual arts , art , law , psychology , aesthetics , psychotherapist
In 1864, editors of two nationally-circulating periodicals, Nellie Williams (aged 14) and her sisters, Allie and Mary (aged 12 and  17), reported that their only brother and Union Soldier, Leroy K. Williams, was missing in action.  Filtering personal trauma through the performative discourses of nineteenth-century journalism, these young writers publicised their anguish over their brother’s capture. The culturally-situated intersectional identities reflected in and contested by their reporting—as white Northerners, working-class youth, loyal sisters, and enterprising journalists—expose a kaleidoscope of fissures and collisions between private and public, silence and enunciation, gender and class, trauma and resilience. The resulting tensions illustrate the ways by which genres shaped, and were shaped by, children’s articulations of suffering for a national audience during wartime.

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