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New world orders in contemporary children's literature [electronic resource] : utopian transformations / Clare Bradford [and others]

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Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. New World Orders shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic and political movements of the last fift...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Bradford, Clare (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Critical approaches to children's literature.
Subjects:
Children's stories, English > History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Utopias in motion pictures.
Children > Books and reading > English-speaking countries.
Children > Books and reading.
Children's stories, English.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • A new world order or a new dark age?
  • Children's texts, new world orders and transformative possibilities
  • Masters, slaves and entrepreneurs: globalised utopias and new world order(ing)s
  • The lure of the lost paradise: postcolonial utopias
  • Reweaving nature and culture: reading ecocritically
  • 'Radiant with possibility': communities and utopianism
  • Ties that bind: reconceptualising home and family
  • The struggle to be human in a posthuman world
  • The future: what are our prospects?

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