This title explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children's literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children's literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches.
This title explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children's literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences....
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children s literature depends on the idea that children are different, separate, and in command of their own imaginative spaces and places. Although the idea of child rule is a persistent theme in discussions of children s literature (or about children and...
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is centra...