Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature: An Introduction
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Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature : From the Enlightenment to the Present Day. ed. / Emer O'Sullivan; Andrea Immel. London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 1-25 (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature).
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T1 - Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature
T2 - An Introduction
AU - O'Sullivan, Emer
AU - Immel, Andrea
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In this introductory chapter to a volume of essays which investigate cultural sameness and difference for children in a variety of forms and genres in texts from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States from the last two hundred years, O’Sullivan and Immel use Peter Sís’s multi-layered, transnational picturebook Madlenka (2000), about how a young girl playfully negotiates the world within her block, as a template to address the overriding questions and central theoretical issues of the volume. These are: identity and belonging; sameness and difference; representation, perspective and agency (who is seeing, what (or who) is seen, how are they represented, and (potentially) why are they represented in this way?); audience; and media, form and genre. The essays are referenced in each part of the theoretical discussion, creating links and connections accross materials, cultures and epochs in a chapter which provides a wide context and a discerning way to look at diversity and national identity tropes in children’s literature today.
AB - In this introductory chapter to a volume of essays which investigate cultural sameness and difference for children in a variety of forms and genres in texts from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States from the last two hundred years, O’Sullivan and Immel use Peter Sís’s multi-layered, transnational picturebook Madlenka (2000), about how a young girl playfully negotiates the world within her block, as a template to address the overriding questions and central theoretical issues of the volume. These are: identity and belonging; sameness and difference; representation, perspective and agency (who is seeing, what (or who) is seen, how are they represented, and (potentially) why are they represented in this way?); audience; and media, form and genre. The essays are referenced in each part of the theoretical discussion, creating links and connections accross materials, cultures and epochs in a chapter which provides a wide context and a discerning way to look at diversity and national identity tropes in children’s literature today.
KW - Literature studies
KW - Identity
KW - difference
KW - perspective
KW - agency
KW - genre
KW - imagology
KW - cosmopolitanism
KW - children's literature
KW - Peter Sís
KW - English
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8_1
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-46169-8_1
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-137-46168-1
T3 - Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
SP - 1
EP - 25
BT - Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature
A2 - O'Sullivan, Emer
A2 - Immel, Andrea
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London, New York
ER -