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Aspects of Time and Memory in Literature for Children and Young Adults
This volume offers a wide variety of theoretical and critical reflections on the ways that different aspects of time and memory are deployed in literature and media for children and young adults that are related to historically and regionally contingent concepts of childhood: from picturebooks to cross-over and young adult novels, from classic children’s literature to adaptations of fairy-tales, and from musical adaptations to films. The interface of the two concepts in question is explored through a range of diverse writers, texts, and cultural traditions across the 19th to 21st centuries. The collection addresses key topics in modern critical theory and children’s literature criticism, such as the imaginative reconstruction of the past, the depiction of time and time objects in picturebooks, the notions of traumatic memory and post-memory in literature. It also considers how texts work as sites of memory by referring to and thus revisiting, challenging or reinterpreting older genres.
Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. ...
The Child in World Cinema
This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child’s place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contributors from around the world who offer compelling analyses of non-Western, non-Hollywood films starring children.
Post-Empire Imaginaries?
Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.
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