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.
This work examines the ways Indian children's writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and India...
Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically 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 between 1988 and 2008 in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North...
Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literatu...
