The Sands of Time
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The Sands of Time

Children's Literature: Culture, Politics & Identity

  1. 193 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Sands of Time

Children's Literature: Culture, Politics & Identity

About this book

Written by key scholars and authors, this collection of essays examines contemporary and historical children's literature. 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 a timely and critical 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.

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Yes, you can access The Sands of Time by Jenny Plastow,Margot Hillel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Jenny Plastow: Introduction to The Sands of Time
  6. Margot Hillel and Jenny Plastow: Introduction to the chapters
  7. Roxanne Harde: ‘One way to get an education’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the borders between working and other children in nineteenth-century American children’s literature
  8. Judith Humphrey: Subversion and resistance in the girls’school story
  9. Karian Schuitema: The possibility of an intercultural children’s theatre in Britain
  10. Mary Clarke: ‘Not in charge of the story’: The presence of Rapunzel in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Margaret Mahy’s The Other Side of Silence
  11. Beverley Naidoo: Ghosts have a way of rising: Writing the past, the present, and crossing the fence
  12. Margot Hillel: Welcoming Strangers: The politics of ‘othering’ in three Australian picture books
  13. Karen Argent: Picture books and their influence on social constructions of disability
  14. Richard MacSween: Children in conflict: the significance of children’s literature in relation to war: An interview with Elizabeth Laird
  15. Madelyn Travis: Building a new world: Gender and modernism in E. Nesbit’s The Magic City
  16. Chris Clark: Now anything goes: Changing influences in historical and theoretical perspectives on children’s historical fiction through narratives of Robin Hood
  17. Philip Stogdon: 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
  18. Andrea Peterson: ‘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
  19. CONTRIBUTORS