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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Blanka Grzegorczyk (University of Wroclaw, Poland)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: 100 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780415720274ISBN 10: 0415720273 Pages: 146 Publication Date: 07 November 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"1. The Politics of Children’s Literature 2. The Empire Within: Migrant and Post-Migrant Coming-of-Age Novels 3. Rewriting Colonial Histories in Historical Fictions For the Young: From Below and Above 4. ""Empires of the Mind"": Intersections of Children’s Fantasy and Postcolonialism 5. The (Post)Colonial Exotic: Representing the Other in Adventure Stories for the Young"Reviews""...the book is a successful survey, deftly bringing together texts that deserve much more attention than they are receiving, both in terms of scholarship and children’s literature courses, which too often bear the signs of an overly rigid adherence to prevailing definitions of what counts as children’s literature."" - Heather Snell, University of Winnipeg, in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 9.1 (2017) ...the book is a successful survey, deftly bringing together texts that deserve much more attention than they are receiving, both in terms of scholarship and children's literature courses, which too often bear the signs of an overly rigid adherence to prevailing definitions of what counts as children's literature. - Heather Snell, University of Winnipeg, in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 9.1 (2017) Author InformationBlanka Grzegorczyk is a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland and has been a member of the Centre for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the University of Wroclaw Institute of English Studies since 2007. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary children’s literature, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |