The essays in this collection address the relationship between
children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young
people. The collection overall is concerned with how cultural
memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and
(re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national
narratives, and often for the benefit of young readers who are
assumed not to possess any prior cultural memory. From the
innovative development of school libraries in the 1920s to the role
of utopianism in fixing cultural memory for teen readers, it
provides a critical look into children and ideologies of childhood
as they are represented in a broad spectrum of texts, including
film, poetry, literature, and architecture from Canada, the United
States, Japan, Germany, Britain, India, and Spain. These cultural
forms collaborate to shape ideas and values, in turn contributing
to dominant discourses about national and global citizenship. The
essays included in the collection imply that childhood is an
oft-imagined idealist construction based in large part on
participation, identity, and perception; childhood is invisible and
tangible, exciting and intriguing, and at times elusive even as
cultural and literary artifacts recreate it. Children and Cultural
Memory in Texts of Childhood is a valuable resource for scholars of
children's literature and culture, readers interested in childhood
and ideology, and those working in the fields of diaspora and
postcolonial studies.
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