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Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature (Paperback)
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Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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This book considers how contemporary British children's books
engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and
how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the
white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of
this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key
role in its representations of race, identity, and history. The
insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power
structures in recent children's novels exposes the complexities and
contradictions surrounding the fictional treatment of race
relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children's literature in
Britain has been inherently ambivalent since its cautious
beginnings: it is both transgressive and authorizing, both
undercutting and excluding. Grzegorczyk considers the ways in which
children's fictions have worked with and against particular
ideologies of race. The texts analyzed in this collection portray
ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism,
global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By
examining the ideological content of these novels, Grzegorczyk
demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary
British writing for the young.
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