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'A young girl's life changes when she visits her great-aunt in the Queensland countryside, and learns of the strange, in triguing history of Mirrabooka.'
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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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Postcolonialism and Language Use in Australian Children's Literature : A Case Study of The Children of Mirrabooka
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Something to Crow About : New Perspectives in Literature for Young People 1999; (p. 51-60) Monica Jarman draws on both postcolonial criticism and systemic functional linguistics to argue that 'The Children of Mirrabooka is a [...]direct example of a general tendency in other postcolonial era Australian children's literature to elide contemporary Aborigines and their culture' from the foreground of the work. -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 12 no. 2 1997; (p. 36-37)
— Review of The Children of Mirrabooka 1997 single work novel -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 41 no. 2 1997; (p. 37)
— Review of The Children of Mirrabooka 1997 single work novel -
The Past in Different Packages
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 189 1997; (p. 62)
— Review of The Children of Mirrabooka 1997 single work novel ; Pankration 1997 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 41 no. 2 1997; (p. 37)
— Review of The Children of Mirrabooka 1997 single work novel -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 12 no. 2 1997; (p. 36-37)
— Review of The Children of Mirrabooka 1997 single work novel -
The Past in Different Packages
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 189 1997; (p. 62)
— Review of The Children of Mirrabooka 1997 single work novel ; Pankration 1997 single work children's fiction -
Postcolonialism and Language Use in Australian Children's Literature : A Case Study of The Children of Mirrabooka
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Something to Crow About : New Perspectives in Literature for Young People 1999; (p. 51-60) Monica Jarman draws on both postcolonial criticism and systemic functional linguistics to argue that 'The Children of Mirrabooka is a [...]direct example of a general tendency in other postcolonial era Australian children's literature to elide contemporary Aborigines and their culture' from the foreground of the work. -
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
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Reality Bites: The Representation of Aboriginality in Children's Books of the Nineties
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Making It Real : Proceedings of the Fourth Children's Literature Conference 1997; (p. 61-68)
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