Voices of the Other: Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context [Paperback]

General Editors Forward Preface Contributors Introduction Roderick McGillis Section I: Theory 1. Rethinking the Identity of Cultural Otherness: The Discourse of Difference as an Unfinished Project Shaobo Xie 2. We are the world, we are the children : The Semiotics of Seduction in International Childrens Relief Efforts Nancy Ellen Batty 3. The View from the Center: British Empire and Post-Empire Childrens Literature Peter Hunt and Karen Sands 4. Continuity, Fissure, or Dysfunction: From Settler Society to Multicultural Society in Australian Fiction John Stephens 5. Text, Culture, and Postcolonial Childrens Literature: A Comparative Perspective Jean Webb Section II: Colonialism 6. Saved by the World: Textuality and Colonization Nineteenth-Century Texts for Children Clare Bradford 7. Making Princesses, Remaking A Little Princess Mavis Reimer 8. Colonial Canadas Young Adult Short Adventure Fiction: The Hunting Tale Jean Stringam 9. Lies my Childrens Books Taught me: History Meets Popular Culture in The American Girls Books Daniel Hade Section III: Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism 10. Bedtime Stories: Canadian Multiculturalism and Childrens Literature Louise Saldanha 11. Multiculturalism in Canadian Childrens Books: The Embarrassments of History Dieter Petzold 12. Initiation for the Nation : Ngig) wa Thiongos Writing for Children Oliver Lovesey 13. Wrestling with the Past: The Young Adult Novels of Buchi Emecheta Alida Allison 14. And the Celt Knew the Indian : Knowingness, Postcolonialism, Childrens Literature Roderick McGillis 15. Reviving or Revising Helen Bannermans The Story of Little Black Saml#4