Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032235981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 148 str.

Blanka Grzegorczyk

Opis

This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children’s writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Unhealed Wounds

Chapter 2 Precarious Lives

Chapter 3 Subcultural Spaces

Chapter 4 The Reluctant Terrorist

Chapter 5 At Home in Wonderland

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Blanka Grzegorczyk teaches at the University of Cambridge and Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature (2015).