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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Slater, Katharine

Titel

Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography ed. by Aïda Hudson (review)

Ist Teil von

• Children's literature (Storrs, Conn.), 2020, Vol.48 (1), p.257-262

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Foundational analyses foreground location: for instance, in the highly influential textbook The Pleasures of Children's Literature (1991, 1995, 2002), Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer's definition of the "home-away-home" thematic structure suggests that children's literature relies fundamentally on geography as an organizing principle. Clare Bradford's groundbreaking Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature (2007) considers the roles of nationality, space-time, and borders in both settler colonial texts and indigenous narratives, a reading that shows in part how imperialist cartographies forcibly remapped native spatialities. Here too, the framework uniting these chapters would profit from more consideration of recent scholarship, as the last decade of postcolonial studies has challenged both the dichotomy of "Old World" and "New World," and the use of "world" as a term, as opposed to "global." The Eco-Imaginative Space of the Garden in Contemporary Children's Picture Books," is a close reading well-grounded in extant criticism.