| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : color illustrations |
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Studies in childhood and family in Canada |
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Studies in childhood and family in Canada.
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| Contents |
LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Discourses of Home in Canadian Children's Literature; CHAPTER 1 Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological Work of Canadian Children's Literature; CHAPTER 2 Les représentations du ± home » dans les romans historiques québécois destinés aux adolescents; CHAPTER 3 Le home : un espace privilégié en littérature de jeunesse québécoise; CHAPTER 4 Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition; CHAPTER 5 Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors |
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CHAPTER 6 At Home on Native Land: A Non-Aboriginal Canadian Scholar Discusses Aboriginality and Property in Canadian Double-Focalized Novels for Young AdultsCHAPTER 7 White Picket Fences: At Home with Multicultural Children's Literature in Canada?; CHAPTER 8 Windows as Homing Devices in Canadian Picture Books; CHAPTER 9 The Homely Imaginary: Fantasies of Nationhood in Australian and Canadian Texts; CHAPTER 10 Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People; AFTERWORD: Homeward Bound?; WORKS CITED; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V |
| Summary |
The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children's and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Home in literature.
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Children's literature, Canadian -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Children's literature, Canadian
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Home in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reimer, Mavis
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| ISBN |
9781435642676 |
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1435642678 |
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9781554580163 |
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1554580161 |
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9781554581221 |
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1554581222 |
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