Blanka Grzegorczyk

Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. In this conception, the insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power relations in recent children's novels reveals significant tensions, or even contradictions, with regards to the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. The texts analyzed portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317962625
• Artikelnr.: 41785707

Autorenporträt

Blanka Grzegorczyk is a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland and has been a member of the Centre for Young People's Literature and Culture at the University of Wroclaw Institute of English Studies since 2007. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary children's literature, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Politics of Children's Literature 2. The Empire Within: Migrant and
Post-Migrant Coming-of-Age Novels 3. Rewriting Colonial Histories in
Historical Fictions For the Young: From Below and Above 4. "Empires of the
Mind": Intersections of Children's Fantasy and Postcolonialism 5. The
(Post)Colonial Exotic: Representing the Other in Adventure Stories for the
Young