TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradford,Clare
TI  - Unsettling narratives: postcolonial readings of children's literature 
SN  - 9780889205079 :
U1  - 809/.89282 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - [Waterloo, Ont.]
PB  - Wilfrid Laurier University Press
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Children
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Indigenous peoples in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -