Title Displaced fictions : contemporary Australian books for teenagers and young adults / Heather Scutter

Published Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1999

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Description vii, 330 pages ; 22 cm Contents Introduction: Beyond the Looking Glass -- 1. The Best of Worlds and the Worst of Worlds -- 2. Escaping the Landscape -- 3. Comedy and the Politics of Exclusion -- 4. Really Sentimental -- 5. Just Australian? -- 6. Keeping Mum -- 7. Wild Things -- 8. Loose Canons Summary Stresses the importance of educating critical readers, alert to the ways in which ideas and values are constructed - Looks at the works of Gary Crew, Gillian Rubinstein, Isobelle Carmody, Paul Jennings, John Marsden, Morris Gleitzman and Sonya Hartnett______________ Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references:( pages 314-321) and index Notes In English Subject Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Australian fiction. Children's stories, Australian -- History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) Teenagers -- Books and reading -- Australia. Young adult fiction, Australian -- History and criticism. Young adults -- Books and reading -- Australia. Genre/Form Fiction. LC no. 98218899 ISBN 0522848133

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