The nation in children's literature : nations of childhood / edited by Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Björn Sundmark.

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This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in children's literature and how it constructs and represents different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse aspects of children's literature and film from interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, ranging from the short story and novel to science fiction and fantasy from a range of locations including Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Norway, America, Italy, Great Britain, Iceland, Africa, Japan, South Korea, India, Sweden and Greece. The emergence of modern nation-states can be seen as coinciding with the historical rise of children's literature, while stateless or diasporic nations have frequently formulated their national consciousness and experience through children's literature, both instructing children as future citizens and highlighting how ideas of childhood inform the discourses of nation and citizenship. Because nation and childhood are so intimately connected, it is crucial for critics and scholars to shed light on how children's literatures have constructed and represented historically different national experiences. At the same time, given the massive political and demographic changes in the world since the nineteenth century and the formation of nation states, it is also crucial to evaluate how the national has been challenged by changing national languages through globalization, international commerce, and the rise of English. This book discusses how the idea of childhood pervades the rhetoric of nation and citizenship, and how children and childhood are represented across the globe through literature and film.

Innehållsförteckning levererad av Syndetics

• First Things - Introduction
• I The Child and the Nation - Lessons in Citizenship
• 1 A New "Bend in the Road": Navigating Nationhood through L. M. Montgomery's
• 2 Ski Tracks in the Wilderness: Nature and Nation in Norwegian Young Adult Books from the 1930s
• 3 Wild Nature Revisited: Negotiations of the National Self-Imagination
• II Subversive Tales - Critiquing the Nation
• 4 Dangerous Children and Children in Danger: Reading American Comics under the Italian Fascist Régime
• 5 The World is a Confused Pink Sheep: Subversive Uses of Icelandic themes in the Poetry of àorarinn EldjÃírn
• 6 Deconstructions of the Japanese Nation State in Uehashi Nahoko's Moribito (Guardian) series
• 7 "The Ghost Remembers Only What It Wants To": Traumas of Girlhood as a Metonym for the Nation in the South Korean Whispering Corridors (Yeogo goedam) series
• III Nations Before and Within
• 8 Nation as Home? A New Quest for Taiwanese Aboriginal Literature
• 9 Nation-Building in Australia: The Pre-Federation Children's Novels of Ethel Turner
• 10 "Our Motherland": Mapping an Identity in Bengali Children's Literature
• IV Empire, Globalization and Cosmopolitan Consciousness
• 11 Writing and Righting History: Henty's Nation
• 12 Empire and Nation in the Life Work of Arthur Mee
• 13 International Classic Characters and National Ideologies: Alice and Pinocchio in Greece
• V Childhood as Nation Imagined - Once Upon a Time to Be
• 14 Medievalism and Nationhood in Children's Literature
• 15 Set in Stone: Runes, Nation, Childhood
• 16 Post-Fordist Nation: The Economics of Childhood and the New Global Citizenship
• 17 "I thought I lived in a country where I had
• Postscript: Where Children Rule?