Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
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London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 268 p. (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature).
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature
T2 - From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
A2 - O'Sullivan, Emer
A2 - Immel, Andrea
PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
N2 - From English caricatures of the 1780s, through 19th and early 20th century culture-specific perspectives, to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood, the essays in this volume investigate how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United StatesThe chapters address different models of presenting foreigners, from static exhibitions in children’s educational prints to cultural geography in dramatic performance, travel narratives as construction of self and shaping of nation, and ethnicity as entertainment in comics and picturebooks. The texts negotiate the tensions between the Enlightenment ideal of internationalism and discrete national and ethnic identities since the Romantic era, providing examples of ethnocentric cultural perspectives and of cultural relativism, of images instrumentalized in the service of ideology and propaganda, but also of texts granting the child reader agency in discussions about how they might participate eventually in a tolerant transnational community.
AB - From English caricatures of the 1780s, through 19th and early 20th century culture-specific perspectives, to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood, the essays in this volume investigate how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United StatesThe chapters address different models of presenting foreigners, from static exhibitions in children’s educational prints to cultural geography in dramatic performance, travel narratives as construction of self and shaping of nation, and ethnicity as entertainment in comics and picturebooks. The texts negotiate the tensions between the Enlightenment ideal of internationalism and discrete national and ethnic identities since the Romantic era, providing examples of ethnocentric cultural perspectives and of cultural relativism, of images instrumentalized in the service of ideology and propaganda, but also of texts granting the child reader agency in discussions about how they might participate eventually in a tolerant transnational community.
KW - English
KW - Literature studies
KW - Kinderliteraturwissenschaft
KW - Children's literature studies
KW - Cosmopolitanism
KW - Multiculturalism
KW - Imagology
KW - Difference
KW - Ethnotype
KW - Universalism
KW - Age of Enlightenment
KW - schild
KW - children's literature
KW - English literature
KW - literature
KW - present
UR - http://www.springer.com/de/book/9781137461681
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8
M3 - Collected editions and anthologies
SN - 978-1-137-46168-1
T3 - Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
BT - Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children’s Literature
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -