Discourses of Internationalism in Children’s Literature
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Discourses of Internationalism in Children’s Literature. / O'Sullivan, Emer.
Child autonomy and child governance in children's literature: Where Children Rule. ed. / Christopher (Kit) Kelen; Björn Sundmark. 1. ed. London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. p. 30-42 (Children's literature and culture).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Discourses of Internationalism in Children’s Literature
AU - O'Sullivan, Emer
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - For a number of decades now, Otherness has featured as a central concept in cultural and literary studies. Poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches and whiteness studies as well as imagology have examined the construction and representation of different ethnic groups and their implications in lite rature.1 A further recent focus, fueled by the centenary of the First World War, has been on the role of children’s literature in indoctrinating children with nationalist agendas and spreading war propaganda.2 I would like to focus on a seemingly contrary issue, one which, instead of emphasizing the idea of children belonging to specific ethnic or national group, propagates childhood as a space which transcends all borders: the discourse of inter nationalism. Although no longer fashionable today-“there are few present-day invocations to internationalism” (Clavin 5)—it enjoyed tremendous currency in the eras succeeding the First and the Second World Wars.
AB - For a number of decades now, Otherness has featured as a central concept in cultural and literary studies. Poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches and whiteness studies as well as imagology have examined the construction and representation of different ethnic groups and their implications in lite rature.1 A further recent focus, fueled by the centenary of the First World War, has been on the role of children’s literature in indoctrinating children with nationalist agendas and spreading war propaganda.2 I would like to focus on a seemingly contrary issue, one which, instead of emphasizing the idea of children belonging to specific ethnic or national group, propagates childhood as a space which transcends all borders: the discourse of inter nationalism. Although no longer fashionable today-“there are few present-day invocations to internationalism” (Clavin 5)—it enjoyed tremendous currency in the eras succeeding the First and the Second World Wars.
KW - English
KW - Literature studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85024841073&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315679648
DO - 10.4324/9781315679648
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-138-93164-0
T3 - Children's literature and culture
SP - 30
EP - 42
BT - Child autonomy and child governance in children's literature
A2 - Kelen, Christopher (Kit)
A2 - Sundmark, Björn
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -