Little kings and baby Hitler

This thesis conducts an investigation of the othered child�s position in society in terms of agency. Within this thesis I plan to investigate the imagined futures of othered children in comparison with their treatment as teens and young adults. I�ve borrowed the term �progressive present� from an English grammatical verb aspect-an aspect that indicates continuing action in the present that will take place in the future, conveying a clear plan for a transition. I�m using this term for its literal temporality and figurative suggestion. I wish to differentiate this from ideas and changes we seek that will affect the distant future; I acknowledge that in many cases these two ideas of the future are bound up in each other. However, rhetoric of what I have called the �fantasmic future� often becomes the vehicle through which changes for the present progressive are either held hostage or campaigned.