Unsettling narratives : postcolonial readings of children's literature /
Bradford, Clare.
Unsettling narratives : postcolonial readings of children's literature / Clare Bradford. - [Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007. - vii, 279 p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.
"When languages collide" : resistance and representation -- Language, resistance, and subjectivity -- Indigenous texts and publishers -- White imaginings -- Telling the past -- Place and postcolonial significations -- Space, time, nation -- Borders, journeys, and liminality -- Politics and place -- Allegories of place and race. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. II. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"Children's books seek to assist children understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government."--back cover.
9780889205079 : $32.95 0889205078
20079017673
Children's literature--History and criticism
Children--Books and reading
Postcolonialism in literature
Children's literature--Political aspects
Indigenous peoples in literature
809/.89282
Unsettling narratives : postcolonial readings of children's literature / Clare Bradford. - [Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007. - vii, 279 p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.
"When languages collide" : resistance and representation -- Language, resistance, and subjectivity -- Indigenous texts and publishers -- White imaginings -- Telling the past -- Place and postcolonial significations -- Space, time, nation -- Borders, journeys, and liminality -- Politics and place -- Allegories of place and race. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. II. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"Children's books seek to assist children understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government."--back cover.
9780889205079 : $32.95 0889205078
20079017673
Children's literature--History and criticism
Children--Books and reading
Postcolonialism in literature
Children's literature--Political aspects
Indigenous peoples in literature
809/.89282