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Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Many children learn from a very young age about the importance of
always telling the truth. They also learn that telling lies is
necessary if they are to survive in a world that paradoxically
values the truth but practises deception. Secrets, Lies and
Children's Fiction demonstrates how this paradox is played out in
texts for children and young adults, how secrets and lies may be a
necessary means for survival and adaptation, and how mendacity may
have its virtues. Kerry Mallan examines a wide selection of
international texts, spanning several decades, including picture
books, novels, and films. By drawing on diverse fields of
scholarship, Mallan makes important connections between children's
literature, philosophical and moral complexities, and cultural and
social tensions. Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction provokes
thinking about what passes as 'the truth', the consequences of
truth telling and lying, and the sacrificial arbitrariness of
scapegoating.
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