The sands of time
Subtitle: children's literature : culture, politics & identity : papers and presentations from conference 2008
By: edited by Jenny Plastow & Margot Hillel
Series: Children's literature annual -- no. 3; Children's literature annual -- no. 3.
Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781905313914; 9781905313808
Subjects: Children's literature; Congresses; History and criticism; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Literary
Description: From a wry look at girls' school stories from the last century to a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary, illustrated children's books from Australia, this volume offers an examination of the overt and subtle ways in which children's literature reflects and responds to the political environment from which it springs. Wide-ranging in its approach and themes, this account also discusses the interplay between culture and identity and how these influences are reflected in children's books. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Culture. 'One way to get an education' : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the borders between working and other children in nineteenth-century American children's literature ; Subversion and resistance in the girls' school story / Judith Humphrey ; The possibility of an intercultural children's theatre in Britain / Karian Schuitema ; 'Not in charge of the story' : the presence of Rapunzel in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Margaret Mahy's The other side of silence; title: pt. 2. Politics. Ghosts have a way of rising : writing the past, the present and crossing the fence / Beverley Naidoo ; Welcoming strangers : the politics of 'othering' in three Australian picture books / Margot Hillel ; Picture books and their influence on social constructions of disability / Karen Argent ; Children in conflict : the significance of children's literature in relation to war : an interview with Elizabeth Laird / Richard MacSween; title: pt. 3. Identity. Building a new world : gender and modernism in E. Nesbit's The magic city / Madelyn Travis ; Now anything goes : changing influences in historical and theoretical perspectives on children's historical fiction through narratives of Robin Hood / Chris Clark ; Torments in the Himalayas : isolation and identity in Maurice Sendak's The sign on Rosie's door and Christina Stead's The man who loved children / Philip Stogdon ; 'Knowledge, more than anything else, can overcome oppression' : subjectivity and autonomy in the characterisation of Charlotte Armstrong-Barnes and Maggie Dundas in Theresa Breslin's Remembrance / Andrea Peterson.