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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reimer, Mavis, 1954-

Series:

Studies in childhood and family in Canada.

Studies in childhood and family in Canada

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Children's literature, Canadian.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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 a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a 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 reconfigur

Contents:

CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Discourses of Home in Canadian Children's Literature; CHAPTER 1 Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological Work of Canadian Children's Literature; CHAPTER 2 Les représentations du « home » dans les romans historiques québécois destinés aux adolescents; CHAPTER 3 Le home : un espace privilégié en littérature de jeunesse québécoise; CHAPTER 4 Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition; CHAPTER 5 Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors

CHAPTER 6 At Home on Native Land: A Non-Aboriginal Canadian Scholar Discusses Aboriginality and Property in Canadian Double-Focalized Novels for Young AdultsCHAPTER 7 White Picket Fences: At Home with Multicultural Children's Literature in Canada?; CHAPTER 8 Windows as Homing Devices in Canadian Picture Books; CHAPTER 9 The Homely Imaginary: Fantasies of Nationhood in Australian and Canadian Texts; CHAPTER 10 Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People; AFTERWORD: Homeward Bound?; WORKS CITED; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781299313354

1299313353

9781554581221

1554581222

9781435642676

1435642678

OCLC:

227356559