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Title The Arctic in literature for children and young adults / edited by Heidi Hansson, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth and Anka Ryall
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Children's literature and culture
Children's literature and culture.
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
Young adult fiction -- History and criticism
Indigenous peoples in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Children's stories
Indigenous peoples in literature
Literature
Young adult fiction
SUBJECT Arctic regions -- In literature
Subject Arctic Regions
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Hansson, Heidi, editor
Lindgren Leavenworth, Maria, 1969- editor.
Ryall, Anka, 1949- editor.
LC no. 2019055777
ISBN 9781000733440
1000733440
9780429343704
0429343701
9781000733068
1000733068
9781000733259
1000733254