Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-54741-4 (ISBN)
Postcolonial children’s literature in Britain has been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. Grzegorczyk considers the ways in which children’s fictions have worked with and against particular ideologies of race. The texts analyzed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, Grzegorczyk demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young.
Blanka Grzegorczyk is a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland and has been a member of the Centre for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the University of Wroclaw Institute of English Studies since 2007. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary children’s literature, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory.
1. The Politics of Children’s Literature 2. The Empire Within: Migrant and Post-Migrant Coming-of-Age Novels 3. Rewriting Colonial Histories in Historical Fictions For the Young: From Below and Above 4. "Empires of the Mind": Intersections of Children’s Fantasy and Postcolonialism 5. The (Post)Colonial Exotic: Representing the Other in Adventure Stories for the Young
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.04.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Children's Literature and Culture |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 240 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-54741-7 / 1138547417 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-54741-4 / 9781138547414 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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