Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature: Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl

ISBN-13: 9780415886345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 214 str.

Michelle Superle

Opis

This work examines the ways Indian children's writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children's novels published in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North America.

Spis treści

Introduction: Contemporary, English-Language Indian Children's Novels as Aspirational Literature  1. The Development of Contemporary, English-Language Indian Children's Novels  2. Indian Women Writers: Imagining the New Indian Girl  3. Imagining Unity in Diversity through Cooperation and Friendship  4. Imagining and Performing the Indian Nation  5. Imagining "Indianness"  6. Imagining Identity in the Diaspora: Performing a "masala" Self  7. Performing New Indian Girlhood  8. Conclusion: Old and New Boundaries

O autorze

Michelle Superle is a Professor in the department of Communications at Okanagan College. She has taught children’s literature, composition, and creative writing courses at various Canadian universities and has published articles in Papers and IRCL.