Beyond Window-Dressing? Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium

ISBN-13: 9780968802458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 152 str.

K. V. Johansen

Opis

In the late twentieth century, Canadian childrens fantasy had a poor reputation internationally. Was this reputation deserved, and if so, has the quality of childrens fantasy and the climate for its publication improved since that time? After a survey of twentieth-century Canadian childrens fantasy, Beyond Window-Dressing examines these questions through an extensive cross-section of Canadian childrens fantasy published between 2000 and 2004. From Palmer Cox and Catherine Anthony Clark to Judd Palmer and Alison Baird, and writers of international reputation such as Dave Duncan, O.R. Melling, Kenneth Oppel and Charles de Lint, Beyond Window-Dressing weighs Canadian fantasy against the best of the UK and US. It provides not only a window onto Canadian developments in the genre during the opening years of the twenty-first century, but insists that fantasy must be judged by standards as rigorous as those applied to any other genre of literature.K.V. Johansen held the 2001 Eileen Wallace Research Fellowship in Childrens Literature from the Eileen Wallace Collection at the University of New Brunswick and was the recipient of the 2004 Frances E. Russell Award for research in childrens literature from the Canadian section of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People. She has Masters Degrees in Medieval Studies (Toronto) and in English (McMaster), and is the author of a number of fantasy and science fiction novels for children and teens. Her 2005 book on the history of childrens fantasy, Quests and Kingdoms: A Grown-Ups Guide to Childrens Fantasy Literature, has received international critical acclaim and was short-listed for the 2006 Harvey Darton Award. The authors website may be found at: www.pippin.ca