Home Words - Discourses of Children's Literature in Canada (Paperback)

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children's and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children's literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children's literature.

General

Imprint:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
Release date:	July 2017
Editors:	Mavis Reimer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-1-55458-574-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
LSN:	1-55458-574-0
Barcode:	9781554585748

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