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xxxii, 280 pages ; 22 cm |
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2126.. Children's literature and culture ; v. 10 |
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2126
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Children's literature and culture ; v. 10
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| Contents |
Rethinking the identity of cultural otherness: the discourse of difference as an unfinished project / Shaobo Xie -- "We are the world, we are the children": the semiotics of seduction in international children's relief efforts / Nancy Ellen Batty -- The view from the center: British Empire and post-Empire children's literature / Peter Hunt and Karen Sands -- Continuity, fissure, or dysfunction: from settler society to multicultural society in Australian fiction / John Stephens -- Text, culture, and postcolonial children's literature: a comparative perspective / Jean Webb --Saved by the word: textuality and colonization in nineteenth-century Australian texts for children / Clare Bradford -- Making princesses, re-making A little princess / Mavis Reimer -- Colonial Canada's young adult short adventure fiction: the hunting tale / Jean Stringam -- Lies my children's books taught me: history meets popular culture in "The American girls" books / Daniel Hade -- Bedtime stories: Canadian multiculturalism and children's literature / Louise Saldanha -- Multiculturalism in Canadian children's books: the embarrassments of history / Dieter Petzold -- "Initiation for the nation": Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo's writing for children / Oliver Lovesey -- Wrestling with the past: the young adult novels of Buchi Emecheta / Alida Allison -- "And the Celt knew the Indian": knowingness, postcolonialism, children's literature / Roderick McGillis -- Reviving or revising Helen Bannerman's The story of little black Sambo: postcolonial hero or signifying monkey? / Jan Susina -- The merits and demerits of the postcolonial approach to writings in English / Victor J. Ramray |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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Culture conflict in literature.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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| Author |
McGillis, Roderick.
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| ISBN |
081533284X |
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