Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. New World Orders shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic, and political movements of the last 15 years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalisation, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman. This fascinating volume is the first thorough study of how children's books imagine and propose possible worlds and societies.
About the Author:
Clare Bradford is Professor of Literature at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
About the Author:
Kerry Mallan is Professor in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia
About the Author:
John Stephens is Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia
About the Author:
Robyn McCallum is Lecturer in English Literature at Macquarie University, Australia
Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. New World Orders shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic, and political movements of the last 15 years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalisation, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman. This fascinating volume is the first thorough study of how children's books imagine and propose possible worlds and societies.
About the Author:
Clare Bradford is Professor of Literature at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
About the Author:
Kerry Mallan is Professor in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia
About the Author:
John Stephens is Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia
About the Author:
Robyn McCallum is Lecturer in English Literature at Macquarie University, Australia
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations
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| ISBN-13: | 9781349286157 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication date: | 01/14/2014 |
| Series: | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature Series |
| Edition description: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Pages: | 207 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |