Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Children's literature and culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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Contents |
Polar History and Its Transformations. Anka Ryall: "Polar Icon? Fridtjof Nansen for Children and Young Adults" -- Silje Gaupseth: "An Arctic Tom Sawyer: Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Violet Irwin's Kak" -- Lena Aarekol: "The Snow Baby Books: Mediating Arctic Experiences to Children" -- Henning Howlid Wærp: "The Polar Bear in Nordic Literature for Children and Young Adults" -- Indigenous and Localized Arctics. Ingeborg Høvik: "Girlhood in the Arctic: Word-Image Relations in R. M. Ballantyne's Canadian Adventures" -- JoAnn Conrad: "Encountering Otherness in the Geographical Imaginary: Lapland Journeys in Early Swedish Children's Books" -- Tiffany Johnstone: "'To Help You Find Your Way Home': Michael Kusugak's Reimagining of Fear and Danger in the Canadian Arctic" -- Lill-Tove Fredriksen: "Imagination and Reality in Sami Fantasy" -- Silje Solheim Karlsen: "Coming-of-Age through Svalbard Adventures" -- Arcticity and Imaginary Arctics. Heidi Hansson: "Negotiating the Snow Queen: Versions of an Arctic Archetype" -- Toni Lahtinen: "Arctic Wilderness in Zachris Topelius's Fairy Tale 'Sampo Lappeli'" -- Johan Schimanski: "Playing the Arctic: Arthur Ransome's Winter Holiday" -- Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt: "Arctic Adventure Girls: Television Narratives and Discourses" -- Maria Lindgren Leavenworth: "Orientation and Disorientation in Realistic and Speculative Young Adult Fiction" |
Summary |
"As a setting for juvenile literature, the Arctic has traditionally been a space for adventure, the exotic and the fantastic. More recent works have used the Arctic setting to explore a dystopian future, often related to climate change. The aim of the present volume is to examine themes in Arctic juvenile fiction from the early nineteenth century until today. The deceptive image of the Arctic as geographically uniform seems to promise a cultural coherence, but the collection illustrates the diversity of Arctic literature by critically discussing and comparing works written by visitors and settlers as well as by indigenous peoples. The chapters combine macro- and micro-perspectives to interrogate and illuminate the role of Arctic literature for young readers in creating, maintaining, and increasingly challenging Arctic myths and motifs"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
Subject |
Children's stories -- History and criticism
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Young adult fiction -- History and criticism
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Indigenous peoples in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Children's stories
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Indigenous peoples in literature
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Literature
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Young adult fiction
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SUBJECT |
Arctic regions -- In literature
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Subject |
Arctic Regions
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Hansson, Heidi, editor
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Lindgren Leavenworth, Maria, 1969- editor.
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Ryall, Anka, 1949- editor.
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LC no. |
2019055777 |
ISBN |
9781000733440 |
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1000733440 |
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9780429343704 |
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0429343701 |
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9781000733068 |
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1000733068 |
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9781000733259 |
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1000733254 |
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