This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to
interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young
adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to
forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for
re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and
political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while
concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally
concerned with present views of that historical past because of the
future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include
the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction,
stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic
females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal
series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring
multicultural discourses.
Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written
for children ? most notably how the notion of positive progress
into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which
the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the
protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of
subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with
identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a
metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages
in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre
and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the
present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.
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