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Unsettling narratives : postcolonial readings of children's literature
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Unsettling narratives : postcolonial readings of children's literature
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2007
Book > Non-Fiction
Creators
Bradford, Clare
Description
"Children's books seek to assist children understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government"--back cover.

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Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
9780889205079; 0889205078
Statement of Responsibility
Clare Bradford.
Publication Information
[Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Physical Description
vii, 279 p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
Contents
I. "When languages collide" : resistance and representation -- 1. Language, resistance, and subjectivity -- 2. Indigenous texts and publishers -- 3. White imaginings -- 4. Telling the past -- II. Place and postcolonial significations -- 5. Space, time, nation -- 6. Borders, journeys, and liminality -- 7. Politics and place -- 8. Allegories of place and race.
Electronic Location and Access
Also available online (authentication may be required)
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