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Re-visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers - The Past through Modern Eyes (Paperback)
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Re-visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers - The Past through Modern Eyes (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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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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