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1 Flights of Fantasy? or, Space-Time Compression in Asian-Australian Picture Books Trish Lunt , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 18 no. 2 2008; (p. 65-70) Lunt looks at how 'diasporic experiences are negotiated across time and space' (65) in the picture books A Year of Pink Pieces and Old Magic. The analysis looks specifically at 'the ways in which hybridsed space operates as a function of power and subjectivity central to the project of mediating narratives about Asian-Australian diasporic cultures' (65). As a method for interpreting the 'negotiations of space, place and identity in the global passage of peoples and cultures' (69), Lunt takes into consideration the positionings, flows and folds of personal connections made in both texts by focusing on the images of kites and streamers as 'fluid hyphens' that 'make connections between worlds conceived otherwise as separate and distinct' (69). She argues that both texts 'navigate the arbitrary stasis of cultural boundaries' and make it possible 'to conceive the ways in which disaporic connections transcend space and time' through the akcnowledgement of 'multiple registers and negotiations (renegotiations) of space, place, identity and power relations' (69-70).
1 1 y separately published work icon Reading In The Victorian Classroom Clare Bradford (lead researcher), St Lucia : AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2007-2009 Z1773387 2007 website bibliography The Reading in the Victorian Classroom dataset was established in 2007. It provides information on the Victorian Readers, a series of school readers produced between 1927 and 1930 for schoolchildren in Victoria and used (with revisions) until the 1950s.
1 Situating Childhood: A Reading of Spatiality in Aboriginal Picture Books Trish Lunt , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 15 no. 1 2005; (p. 59-67) In this essay, Lunt's objective is to read spatiality in Aboriginal picture books through the representations of inhabitation and spatial phenomena. The analysis focuses on Bob Randall and Kunyi June-Anne McInerney's Tracker Tjugingji (2003) which Lunt argues, invites readers to share a journey in and through cultural constructions of spatiality. Elaine Russell's A is for Aunty (2000) creates a montage of performative spatiality that links space and time while in Russell's most recent picture book, The Shack That Dad Built (2004), representations of spatiality are personified by embodiment. All three texts offer new ways of understanding spatiality and says Lunt, invite further explorations of 'the spatialisation of Australian childhood' (67).
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