Children's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. This work 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 conceptualise systems of power and government.
Children's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. This work 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 conceptualise systems of power and government.
Clare Bradford is a professor of literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches and researches mainly children's literature. Her 2001 book, Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature, won both the Children's Literature Association Book Award and the IRSCL Award of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. Clare Bradford's publications have appeared in Canadian Children's Literature, Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, Papers, and The Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
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Table of Contents for Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature by Claire Bradford Introduction Part One "When Languages Collide": Resistance and Representation 1. Language, Resistance, and Subjectivity 2. Indigenous Texts and Publishers 3. White Imaginings 4. Telling the Past Part Two Place and Postcolonial Significations 5. Space, Time, Nation 6. Borders, Journeys, and Liminality 7. Politics and Place 8. Allegories of Place and Race Conclusion Notes Bibligraphy and References Index
Table of Contents for Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature by Claire Bradford Introduction Part One "When Languages Collide": Resistance and Representation 1. Language, Resistance, and Subjectivity 2. Indigenous Texts and Publishers 3. White Imaginings 4. Telling the Past Part Two Place and Postcolonial Significations 5. Space, Time, Nation 6. Borders, Journeys, and Liminality 7. Politics and Place 8. Allegories of Place and Race Conclusion Notes Bibligraphy and References Index
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