Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Childrenās Literature - Softcover

Clare Bradford (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889205078 ISBN 13: 9780889205079

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Children's books seek to assist children to 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. Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussionāthe use of postcolonial theoriesārelatively new to the field of children's literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures.

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About the Author

Clare Bradford is a professor of literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches and researches mainly childrenās literature. Her 2001 book, Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Childrenās Literature , won both the Childrenās Literature Association Book Award and the IRSCL Award of the International Research Society for Childrenās Literature. Clare Bradfordās publications have appeared in Canadian Childrenās Literature , Childrenās Literature , The Lion and the Unicorn , Papers , and The Childrenās Literature Association Quarterly .

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0889205078
• ISBN 13: 9780889205079
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288