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Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation - Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Paperback)
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Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation - Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and
social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature
and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a
two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative
orders experience by means of segregation, domestication, breeding,
and extermination, arguing instead that the stories and narratives
of wilderness project chaos and infinite possibilities for
experiencing the world through a diverse community of life.
AbdelRahim engages these narratives in a dialogue with each other
and traces their expression in the various disciplines and books
written for both children and adults, analyzing the manifestation
of fictional narratives in real life. This is both an inter- and
multi-disciplinary endeavor that is reflected in the combination of
research methods drawn from anthropology and literary studies as
well as in the tracing of the narratives of order and chaos, or
civilization and wilderness, in children's literature and our
world. Chapters compare and contrast fictional children's books
that offer different real-world socio-economic paradigms, such as
A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh projecting a civilized
monarcho-capitalist world, Nikolai Nosov's trilogy on The
Adventures of Dunno and Friends presenting the challenges and feats
of an anarcho-socialist society in evolution from primitivism
towards technology, and Tove Jansson's Moominbooks depicting the
harmony of anarchy, chaos, and wildness. AbdelRahim examines the
construction, transmission, and acquisition of knowledge in
children's literature by visiting the very nature of literature,
culture, and language and the civilized structures that domesticate
the world. She brings radically new perspectives to the knowledge,
culture, and construction of human beings, making an invaluable
contribution to a wide range of disciplines and for those engaged
in revolutionizing contemporary debates on the nature of knowledge,
human identity, and the world.
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