Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson,
Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujund?Yi?c, Ivana Milkovi?c, Niall Nance-Carroll,
Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas
Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago,
disparate events culminated in one of the most momentous happenings
in the history of children's literature. Christopher Robin Milne
was born to A. A. Milne and his wife; Edward Bear, a lovable
stuffed toy, arrived on the market; and a living, young bear named
Winnie settled in at the London Zoo. The collaboration originally
begun by the Milnes, the Shepards, Winnie herself, and the many
toys and personalities who fed into the Pooh legend continued to
evolve throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to
become a global phenomenon. Yet even a brief examination of this
sensation reveals that Pooh and his adventures were from the onset
marked by a rich complexity behind a seeming simplicity and
innocence. This volume, after a decades-long lull in concentrated
Pooh scholarship, seeks to highlight the plurality of perspectives,
modes, and interpretations these tales afford, especially after the
Disney Corporation scooped its paws into the honeypot in the 1950s.
Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years argues the
doings of Pooh remain relevant for readers in a posthuman,
information-centric, media-saturated, globalized age. Pooh's forays
destabilize social certainties on all levels-linguistic,
ontological, legal, narrative, political, and so on. Through essays
that focus on geography, language, narrative, characterization,
history, politics, economics, and a host of other social and
cultural phenomena, contributors to this volume explore how the
stories open up discourses about identity, ethics, social
relations, and notions of belonging. This first volume to offer
multiple perspectives from multiple authors on the Winnie-the-Pooh
books in a single collection focuses on and develops approaches
that bring this classic of children's literature into the current
era. Essays included not only are of relevance to scholars with an
interest in Pooh, Milne, and the ""golden age"" of children's
literature, but also showcase the development of children's
literature scholarship in step with exciting modern developments in
literary theory.
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