New world orders in contemporary children's literature
Subtitle: utopian transformations
By: Clare Bradford ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bradford, Clare.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780230020054
Subjects: Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.; Utopias in literature.; Utopias in motion pictures.; Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: A new world order or a new dark age?; title: Children's texts, new world orders and transformative possibilities; title: Masters, slaves and entrepreneurs: globalised utopias and new world order(ing)s; title: The lure of the lost paradise: postcolonial utopias; title: Reweaving nature and culture: reading ecocritically; title: 'Radiant with possibility': communities and utopianism; title: Ties that bind: reconceptualising home and family; title: The struggle to be human in a posthuman world; title: The future: what are our prospects?