New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature write by C. Bradford. This book was released on 2008-03-13. New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature write by Clare Bradford. This book was released on 2011. New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature
Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature write by Blanka Grzegorczyk. This book was released on 2014-10-03. Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 and ethnicity. Postcolonial children’s literature in Britain has been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. Grzegorczyk considers the ways in which children’s fictions have worked with and against particular ideologies of race. The texts analyzed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, Grzegorczyk demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young.
Contemporary Children's Literature and Film
Contemporary Children's Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Children's Literature and Film write by Kerry Mallan. This book was released on 2011-07-13. Contemporary Children's Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film.
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature write by Michelle Superle. This book was released on 2011-05-09. Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children’s novels published between 1988 and 2008 in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North America from the same period, considering the differing ideologies and the current textual constructions of childhood at play in each. Broadly, Superle contends that over the past twenty years an aspirational view of childhood has developed in this literature—a view that positions children as powerful participants in the project of enabling positive social transformation. Her main argument, formed after recognizing several overarching thematic and structural patterns in more than one hundred texts, is that the novels comprise an aspirational literature with a transformative agenda: they imagine apparently empowered child characters who perform in diverse ways in the process of successfully creating and shaping the ideal Indian nation, their own well-adjusted bicultural identities in the diaspora, and/or their own empowered girlhoods. Michelle Superle is a Professor in the department of Communications at Okanagan College. She has taught children’s literature, composition, and creative writing courses at various Canadian universities and has published articles in Papers and IRCL.
