This book explores the meaning of nation or nationalism in
children's literature and how it constructs and represents
different national experiences. The contributors discuss diverse
aspects of children's literature and film from interdisciplinary
and multicultural approaches, ranging from the short story and
novel to science fiction and fantasy from a range of locations
including Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Norway, America, Italy, Great
Britain, Iceland, Africa, Japan, South Korea, India, Sweden and
Greece. The emergence of modern nation-states can be seen as
coinciding with the historical rise of children's literature, while
stateless or diasporic nations have frequently formulated their
national consciousness and experience through children's
literature, both instructing children as future citizens and
highlighting how ideas of childhood inform the discourses of nation
and citizenship. Because nation and childhood are so intimately
connected, it is crucial for critics and scholars to shed light on
how children's literatures have constructed and represented
historically different national experiences. At the same time,
given the massive political and demographic changes in the world
since the nineteenth century and the formation of nation states, it
is also crucial to evaluate how the national has been challenged by
changing national languages through globalization, international
commerce, and the rise of English. This book discusses how the idea
of childhood pervades the rhetoric of nation and citizenship, and
how children and childhood are represented across the globe through
literature and film.
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