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Title What do we tell the children? : critical essays on children's literature / edited by Ciara Ní Bhroin and Patricia Kennon
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 224 pages)
Contents PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; (UN)DOING GENDER; THE INNOCENCE PROJECT AND THE PORTRAYAL OF MALE TEENAGE PROSTITUTION IN FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS; DOING IT -- BUT NOT IN FRONT OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE; PART II; "WHAT BRUNO KNEW"; DEATH AND THE LANDSCAPE IN THE DARK IS RISING AND ITS ADAPTATIONS; PART III; THE 9/11MEDIA AFTERMATH AND CULTURAL IDENTITY POLITICS IN ADOLESCENT FICTION; COMING OF AGE AND NATIONAL CHARACTER AT HOME AND ABROAD; A TALE WORTH TELLING TWICE; PART IV; WHAT DID ADVANCED NATIONALISTS TELL IRISH CHILDREN IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY?
"ENJOY THE LAST OF YOUR SCHOOLGIRL LIFE"PART V; "HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID". FROM BIG BROTHER TO BIG BROTHER; WORDS, WOUNDS AND CHINESE WHISPERS; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary This peer-reviewed collection of critical essays on children's literature addresses contemporary debates regarding what constitutes "suitable" texts for young audiences. The volume examines what adult writers "tell" their child readers with particular focus on the following areas: the representation of sexuality, gender and the body; the treatment of death and trauma; concepts of race, prejudice and national identity; and the use of children's literature as a tool for socializing, acculturati ..
Notes "[This] is the fifth publication of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature (ISSCL)."--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Children's literature -- History and criticism
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
Children's & teenage literature studies.
Literature & literary studies.
Literary essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Children's literature
Children's literature, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Ní Bhroin, Ciara
Kennon, Patricia
ISBN 1443838691
9781443838696
9781299659155
1299659152