Home words : discourses of children's literature in Canada / Mavis Reimer, editor.
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Studies in childhood and family in Canada.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781554580163 1554580161 |