| Description |
1 online resource (146 pages) |
| Series |
Children''s Literature and Culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Politics of Children''s Literature; 2 The Empire Within: Migrant and Post-Migrant Coming-of-Age Novels; 3 Rewriting Colonial Histories in Historical Fictions for the Young: From Below and Above; 4 ""Empires of the Mind"": Intersections of Children''s Fantasy and Postcolonialism; 5 The (Post) Colonial Exotic: Representing the Other in Adventure Stories for the Young; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. The insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power structures in recent children's novels exposes the complexities and contradictions surrounding the fictional treatment of race relations a |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317962625 |
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1317962621 |
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