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Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children's Literature (Hardcover)
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Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children's Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence
in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for
social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people
relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the
first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the
young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how
children's writers find the means to express the local conditions
and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts
examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming
various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups
within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out
their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are
set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant
hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries
transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book
concentrates on the relationship between postcolonial and critical
race studies, Britain's colonial legacy, and literary
representations of terrorism, tracing thematic and formal
similarities in the novels of both established and emerging
children's writers such as Elizabeth Laird, Sumia Sukkar, Alan
Gibbons, Muhammad Khan, Bali Rai, Nikesh Shukla, Malorie Blackman,
Claire McFall, Miriam Halahmy, and Sita Brahmachari. In doing so,
this study maps new connections for scholars, students, and readers
of contemporary children's fiction who are interested in how such
writing addresses some of the most pressing issues affecting us
today, including survival after terror, migration, and community
building.
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