Contemporary Children's Literature and Film: Engaging with Theory

ISBN-13: 9780230231504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str.

Kerry Mallan

Opis

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film.

Spis treści

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Bringing Back Theory; K.Mallan & C.Bradford Schemas and Scripts: Cognitive Instruments and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Children's Literature; J.Stephens Journeying Subjects: Spatiality and Identity in Children's Texts; C.Bradford & R.Baccolini Local and Global: Cultural Globalisation, Consumerism and Children's Fiction; E.Bullen & K.Mallan Monstrous Women: Gothic Misogyny in Monster House; M.Takolander Splitting the Difference: Pleasure, Desire and Intersubjectivity in Children's Literature and Film; C.Wilkie-Stubbs Children as Ecocitizens: Ecocriticism and Environmental Texts; G.Massey & C.Bradford From 'Wizard' to 'Wicked': Adaptation Theory and Young Adult Fiction; D.Buchbinder All That Matters: Technoscience, Critical Theory and Children's Fiction; K.Mallan Index.

O autorze

KERRY MALLAN is Professor in Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her co-edited book Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities is an IRSCL Honour Book (2003). She is a co-author of New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008). Her most recent book is Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (2009).

CLARE BRADFORD is Professor of Literature at Deakin University, Australia. Her 2001 book, Reading Race, won both the ChLA Book Award and the IRSCL Award. She is a co-author of New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008). Her most recent book is Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature (2007).