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Empire and Race in Enid Blyton's Fiction : Deconstructing Whiteness and Modern Editing Practices.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrissey, Siobhan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blyton, Enid, 1897-1968.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Blyton, Enid, 1897-1968.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
- Summary:
- Using critical race theory to explore the racial, colonial and imperial ideologies underpinning Enid Blyton's fiction, this book assesses the edits publishers have made to her work and digs into the effects of censorship and rebranding of children's fiction across the wider publishing industry.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction : Empire and Race in Enid Blyton's Fiction: Deconstructing Whiteness and Modern Editing Practices
- 1 Race, empire and colonialism in Blyton's Sunny Stories magazine
- Previous scholarship
- History and background of the magazine
- The magazine's success and international reach
- Blyton's predecessors: Andrew Lang and Joseph Jacobs
- Blyton's retold folk narratives
- Race and racism in Blyton's magazine
- Race in realistic versus fantasy tales
- Conclusion
- 2 Supporting empire: The imperial and colonial ideologies of Blyton's wartime and fantasy series
- Part one
- Introduction
- Wartime fiction
- The imperial adventure genre
- The Magic Faraway Tree series
- 2 Supporting empire: The imperial and colonial ideologies of the Adventure and Secret series
- Part two
- Realist imperial adventure fiction
- The Adventure series (1944-55)
- The Island of Adventure
- The Castle of Adventure and The Mountain of Adventure
- The River of Adventure
- The Secret series
- The Secret Mountain
- Reflecting the fall of the empire
- 3 Modifying Blyton: Twenty-first-century revisions *
- Motivations to modify: Publisher's financial objectives
- Critical Race Theory
- Colour blindness and colour-lessness
- Critical Whiteness Studies
- Blyton and early editing: The Golliwog
- Beyond the Golliwog: The Adventure series
- Visual modifications and concealment of characters of colour
- Textual modifications
- The Island of Adventure (1944)
- The Mountain of Adventure (1949)
- The Ship of Adventure (1950)
- The River of Adventure (1955)
- Ineffectiveness of edits and implicit racialization
- Implicit racialization: Language and accent
- Racial hierarchy retained.
- The 'correct' hierarchy: Whiteness and power
- 4 The wider issue: Modification of classic and popular children's books and authors
- A history of editing
- A problem only for children's book publishing?
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781350465145
- OCLC:
- 1591756292
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