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'It is the day of the great birthday party, and people are coming from all the islands for the big feast. Betty and Bala are sent to the shop for a pumpkin. They buy a proper big one, but that pumpkin has a mind of its own. A comic tale of contemporary life from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. Picture book format, ages 6 - 10' (Publication summary)
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Unsettling Narratives : Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature
Waterloo
:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
,
2007
Z1415102
2007
single work
criticism
'Children's books seek to assist children to 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.
Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion - the use of postcolonial theories - relatively new to the field of children's literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures ' (From publisher's catalogue).
Contents: Introduction. Part One: 'When Languages Collide': Resistance and Representation 1. Language, Resistance, and Subjectivity.2. Indigenous Texts and Publishers.3. White Imaginings.4. Telling the Past. Part Two: Place and Postcolonial Significations.5. Space, Time, Nation. 6. Borders, Journeys, and Liminality.7. Politics and Place.8. Allegories of Place and Race.Conclusion
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Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 41 no. 1 1997; (p. 11-12)
— Review of Betty and Bala and the Proper Big Pumpkin 1996 single work picture book -
Tropical/Topical Picture Books
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 188 1997; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Home of the Kadimakara People 1996 single work picture book ; Betty and Bala and the Proper Big Pumpkin 1996 single work picture book ; Old Magic 1996 single work picture book -
Indigenous Picture Books
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 11 no. 5 1996; (p. 28)
— Review of Betty and Bala and the Proper Big Pumpkin 1996 single work picture book ; Who's that Jumbun in the Log? 1996 single work picture book ; Dan's Grandpa 1996 single work picture book ; Home of the Kadimakara People 1996 single work picture book
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Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 41 no. 1 1997; (p. 11-12)
— Review of Betty and Bala and the Proper Big Pumpkin 1996 single work picture book -
Indigenous Picture Books
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 11 no. 5 1996; (p. 28)
— Review of Betty and Bala and the Proper Big Pumpkin 1996 single work picture book ; Who's that Jumbun in the Log? 1996 single work picture book ; Dan's Grandpa 1996 single work picture book ; Home of the Kadimakara People 1996 single work picture book -
Tropical/Topical Picture Books
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 188 1997; (p. 54-55)
— Review of Home of the Kadimakara People 1996 single work picture book ; Betty and Bala and the Proper Big Pumpkin 1996 single work picture book ; Old Magic 1996 single work picture book -
y
Unsettling Narratives : Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature
Waterloo
:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
,
2007
Z1415102
2007
single work
criticism
'Children's books seek to assist children to 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.
Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion - the use of postcolonial theories - relatively new to the field of children's literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures ' (From publisher's catalogue).
Contents: Introduction. Part One: 'When Languages Collide': Resistance and Representation 1. Language, Resistance, and Subjectivity.2. Indigenous Texts and Publishers.3. White Imaginings.4. Telling the Past. Part Two: Place and Postcolonial Significations.5. Space, Time, Nation. 6. Borders, Journeys, and Liminality.7. Politics and Place.8. Allegories of Place and Race.Conclusion
Awards
- 1996 selected White Ravens
- Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland,