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Space and place in children's literature, 1789 to the present

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:31 authored by Malini Roy, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Kavita Mudan Finn, Hannah FieldHannah Field
Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The collection is comprised of four sections that take up the space between children and adults, the representation of 'real world' places, fantasy travel and locales, and the physical space of the children’s book-as-object. In their essays, the contributors analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by authors such as Sylvia Plath, Maria Edgeworth, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Knox, and Claude Ponti. While maintaining a focus on how location and spatiality aid in defining the child’s relationship to the world, the essays also address themes of borders, displacement, diaspora, exile, fantasy, gender, history, home-leaving and homecoming, hybridity, mapping, and metatextuality. With an epilogue by Philip Pullman in which he discusses his own relationship to image and locale, this collection is also a valuable resource for understanding the work of this celebrated author of children’s literature.

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  • Published

Publisher

Ashgate

Pages

266.0

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781472420541

Series

Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

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  • English Publications

Notes

his is an edited book edited by Malini Roy, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Kavita Mudan Finn, Hannah Field

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  • Yes

Editors

Malini Roy, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Kavita Mudan Finn, Hannah Field

Legacy Posted Date

2015-09-14

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