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Home Words: Discourses of Children's Literature in Canada
Contributor(s): Reimer, Mavis (Editor)
ISBN: 1554580161     ISBN-13: 9781554580163
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2008
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Native American
- Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature
- Literary Criticism | Canadian
Dewey: 810.803
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 308 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Cultural Region - Canadian
 
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Publisher Description:

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children's and national literatures.

Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children's literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children's literature.


Contributor Bio(s): Reimer, Mavis: - Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, director of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children's Literature and editor of a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale.