Home words : discourses of children's literature in Canada / Mavis Reimer, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reimer, Mavis.

Series:

Studies in childhood and family in Canada

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Home in literature.

Children's literature, Canadian--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Canadian.

Physical Description:

xx, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2008]

Summary:

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's literature, which variously picture home as dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children's and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children's literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children's literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological Work of Canadian Children's Literature / Mavis Reimer Reimer, Mavis 1

Chapter 2 Les représentations du "home" dans les romans historiques québécois destinés aux adolescents / Danielle Thaler Thaler, Danielle, Alain Jean-Bart Jean-Bart, Alain 27

Chapter 3 Le home: un espace privilégié en littérature de jeunesse québécoise / Anne Rusnak Rusnak, Anne 51

Chapter 4 Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition / Andrew O'Malley O'Malley, Andrew 67

Chapter 5 Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors / Doris Wolf Wolf, Doris, Paul DePasquale DePasquale, Paul 87

Chapter 6 At Home on Native Land: A Non-Aboriginal Canadian Scholar Discusses Aboriginality and Property in Canadian Double-Focalized Novels for Young Adults / Perry Nodelman Nodelman, Perry 107

Chapter 7 White Picket Fences: At Home with Multicultural Children's Literature in Canada? / Louise Saldanha Saldanha, Louise 129

Chapter 8 Windows as Homing Devices in Canadian Picture Books / Deborah Schnitzer Schnitzer, Deborah 145

Chapter 9 The Homely Imaginary: Fantasies of Nationhood in Australian and Canadian Texts / Clare Bradford Bradford, Clare 177

Chapter 10 Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People / Margaret Mackey Mackey, Margaret, James Nahachewsky Nahachewsky, James, Janice Banser Banser, Janice 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781554580163

1554580161

OCLC:

162506918