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Unsettling narratives : postcolonial readings of children's literature / Clare Bradford.

By: Bradford, Clare Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007Description: vii, 279 p. : ill., port. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780889205079 :; 0889205078Subject(s): Children's literature -- History and criticism | Children -- Books and reading | Postcolonialism in literature | Children's literature -- Political aspects | Indigenous peoples in literatureDDC classification: 809/.89282

Contents:

I. "When languages collide" : resistance and representation -- 1. Language, resistance, and subjectivity -- 2. Indigenous texts and publishers -- 3. White imaginings -- 4. Telling the past -- II. Place and postcolonial significations -- 5. Space, time, nation -- 6. Borders, journeys, and liminality -- 7. Politics and place -- 8. Allegories of place and race.

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books & Reports	BCACCS Resource Centre Regular	A15 B73 U57 2007 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	1	Available		T 2420

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.

"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.

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