ISBN:
9783642367601
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVII, 157 p. 1 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
New Frontiers of Educational Research
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als (Re)imagining the world
Keywords:
Education
;
Education
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Fortschritt
;
Rezeption
;
Kinderliteratur
;
Welt
;
Kinderliteratur
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
(Re)Imagining the world: Children's Literature's Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine 'the world', not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for children engages with some of the changes brought about by new technologies, information literacy, consumerism, migration, politics, different family structures, cosmopolitanism, new and old monsters. They also invite us to think about how memory shapes our understanding of the past, and how fiction
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Authors' Biographies; 1 Reading: From Turning the Page to Touching the Screen; 1.1 Literacy and Subjectivity; 1.2 Metareading in Children's Literature; 1.3 Positive Pictures of Reading; 1.4 The Digital Generation; 1.5 Playing with Technology; 1.6 Touching Texts; 1.7 If Books Could Fly; 1.8 Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 Knowledge: Navigating the Visual Ecology-Information Literacy and the 'Knowledgescape' in Young Adult Fiction; 2.1 Changing Times: Information Literacy in a Digital Age; 2.2 Information Anxiety: The 'Knowledgescape' as Trope in Contemporary Fiction
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2.3 Information Inequality: Topographies of the 'Knowledgescape'2.4 Conclusion: Information Literacy and the Visual Ecology; Note; References; 3 Consumption: The Appeal of Abundance in Bookspace and Playspace; 3.1 Theoretical Perspectives on Children's Domestic Consumption; 3.2 Owning and Wanting to Own; 3.3 Little Centres of Consumption; 3.3.1 Maida's Little Universe; 3.3.2 Laura's Little Luxuries; 3.3.3 A Celebration of Domestic Consumption; 3.4 Consuming in Bookspace and Playspace; 3.5 Children's Literature as Consumption; 3.6 Owning Books; 3.7 Conclusions; References
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4 Discovery: My Name is ElizabethReferences; 5 Childhoods: Childhoods in Chinese Children's Texts-Continuous Reconfiguration for Political Needs; 5.1 The Dynastic Period, Until 1911; 5.2 The Republican Period, from 1911 to 1949; 5.3 Mao's Socialist Phase, from 1949 to 1976; 5.4 The Post-Mao 'new era', from 1976 to 2000; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6 Imagination: Imaginations of the Nation-Childhood and Children's Literature in Modern China; 6.1 Building Chinese Children's Literature for a New Republic; 6.2 Constructing Proletarian Childhood in Socialist New China
Description / Table of Contents:
6.3 Revamping Nationalism in Contemporary China6.4 Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 Migrancy: Rites of Passage and Cultural Translation in Literature for Children and Young Adults; 7.1 Definitions and Deliberations; 7.2 Notions of 'Home' and Translation; 7.3 Narratives of Migrancy for Adults and Children; 7.4 Narratives of Migration in the Context of Canadian Multiculturalism; 7.4.1 Showcasing Experiences of Dissonance and Assimilation; 7.4.2 Mythologies of Early Chinese Settlers; 7.4.3 From Gdansk to Toronto: Culture Shock and Adaptation; 7.5 Narratives for a Changing Population; References
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8 Food: Changing Approaches to Food in the Construction of Childhood in Western Culture8.1 Food, Morality and the Nation; 8.2 Greedy Appetites; 8.3 In a Manner of Eating; 8.4 Class and Food; 8.5 Changing Approaches to Obesity; 8.6 Recipes for Change; Note; References; 9 Empathy: Narrative Empathy and Children's Literature; 9.1 The Similarity Bias and Narrative Empathy; 9.2 Conclusion; Note; References; 10 Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance; 10.1 The Virtuous Vampire of YA Romance; 10.2 The Werewolf and Ethnicity; 10.3 Monstrous Mothers in Fairy Romance
Description / Table of Contents:
10.4 Monstrous Fathers, Beautiful Daughters
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-36760-1
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