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As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression. Seen as a tool for both entertaining and educating children, this material is often overtly propagandistic and nationalistic, and addresses some of the key political, economic, and social concerns of Canada as it struggled to maintain national unity during this time. From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood studies a large variety of children’s literature written in English between 1867 and 1911, revealing a distinct interest in questions of national unity and identity among children’s writers of the day and exploring the influence of American and British authors on the shaping of Canadian identity. The visions of Canada expressed in this material are often in competition with one another, but together they illuminate the country’s attempts to define itself and its relation to the world outside its borders.
E-Book Content
FROM NURSERY RHYMES TO
N AT I O N H O O D
Children’s Literature and Culture Jack Zipes, Series Editor Children’s Literature Comes of Age Toward a New Aesthetic by Maria Nikolajeva Sparing the Child Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature About Nazism and the Holocaust by Hamida Bosmajian Rediscoveries in Children’s Literature by Suzanne Rahn Inventing the Child Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood by Joseph L. Zornado Regendering the School Story Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys by Beverly Lyon Clark A Necessary Fantasy? The Heroic Figure in Children’s Popular Culture edited by Dudley Jones and Tony Watkins White Supremacy in Children’s Literature Characterizations of African Americans, 1830–1900 by Donnarae MacCann Ways of Being Male Representing Masculinities in Children’s Literature and Film by John Stephens Retelling Stories, Framing Culture Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature by John Stephens and Robyn McCallum Pinocchio Goes Postmodern Perils of a Puppet in the United States by Richard Wunderlich and Thomas J. Morrissey
The Case of Peter Rabbit Changing Conditions of Literature for Children by Margaret Mackey The Feminine Subject in Children’s Literature by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction by Robyn McCallum Recycling Red Riding Hood by Sandra Beckett The Poetics of Childhood by Roni Natov Voices of the Other Children’s Literature and the Postcolonial Context edited by Roderick McGillis Narrating Africa George Henty and the Fiction of Empire by Mawuena Kossi Logan Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults edited by Naomi J. Miller Representing the Holocaust in Youth Literature by Lydia Kokkola Translating for Children by Riitta Oittinen Beatrix Potter Writing in Code by M. Daphne Kutzer Children’s Films History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory by Ian Wojcik-Andrews Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults edited by Carrie Hintz and Elaine Ostry
Little Women and the Feminist Imagination Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays edited by Janice M. Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark
Transcending Boundaries Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults edited by Sandra L. Beckett
The Presence of the Past Memory, Heritage, and Childhood in Postwar Britain by Valerie Krips
The Making of the Modern Child Children’s Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century by Andrew O’Malley
How Picturebooks Work by Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott Brown Gold Milestones of African American Children’s Picture Books, 1845–2002 by Michelle H. Martin Russell Hoban/Forty Years Essays on His Writing for Children by Alida Allison Apartheid and Racism in South African Children’s Liter