The Nation in Childrens Literature

"The volume, which belongs to the publisher's long-standing series on cultural aspects of children's literature, includes topics that are often overlooked, that hold the reader's interest, and that have academic merit. Summing Up: Recommended." --C. E. Epple, Ursuline College, CHOICE "... many scholars will find something useful in this volume, whether it be an explication of a critically ignored international children's text of a generative approach to the question of childhood citizenship." --Children's Literature Association Quarterly "The volume, which belongs to the publisher's long-standing series on cultural aspects of children's literature, includes topics that are often overlooked, that hold the reader's interest, and that have academic merit. Summing Up: Recommended." --C. E. Epple, Ursuline College, CHOICE "... many scholars will find something useful in this volume, whether it be an explication of a critically ignored international children's text of a generative approach to the question of childhood citizenship." --Children's Literature Association Quarterly "The Nation in Children's Literature situates children's literature research within a productive indisciplinary field, drawing on historical and sociological models of nationhood." -- Nikola von Merveldt, Universite de Montreal, Canada, Bookbird, Vol 53, No. 1, 2015

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is Associate Professor at the University of Macau. Bjrn Sundmark is Associate Professor at Malm University, Sweden.

First Things Introduction by Kit Kelen and Bjrn Sundmark I. The Child and the Nation Lessons in Citizenship 1. A New "Bend in the Road": Navigating Nationhood through L. M. Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables Danielle Russell 2. Ski Tracks in the Wilderness: Nature and Nation in Norwegian Young Adult Books from the 1930s Svein Slettan 3. Wild Nature Revisited: Negotiations of the National Self-Imagination Kristin rjasaeter II. Subversive Tales Critiquing the Nation 4. Dangerous Children and Children in Danger: Reading American Comics under the Italian Fascist Rgime Caterina Sinibaldi 5. The World is a Confused Pink Sheep: Subversive Uses of Icelandic themes in the Poetry of orarinn Eldjrn Olga Holownia 6. Deconstructions of the Japanese Nation State in Uehashi Nahokos Moribito (Guardian) series Helen Kilpatrick and Orie Muta 7. "The Ghost Remembers Only What It Wants To": Traumas of Girlhood as a Metonym for the Nation in the South Korean Whispering Corridors (Yeogo goedam) series Sung-Ae Lee and John Stephens III. Nations Before and Within 8. Nation as Home? A New Quest for Taiwanese Aboriginal Literature Irene Ying-Yu Chen 9. Nation-Building in Australia: The Pre-Federation Childrens Novels of Ethel Turner Jan Keane 10. "Our Motherland": Mapping an Identity in Bengali Childrens Literature Gargi Gangopadhyay IV. Empire, Globalization and Cosmopolitan Consciousness 11. Writing and Righting History: Hentys Nation Laura Jones 12. Empire and Nation in the Life Work of Arthur Mee Kit Kelen 13. International Classic Characters and National Ideologies: Alice and Pinocchio in Greece Petros Panaou and Tasoula Tsilimeni V. Childhood as Nation Imagined Once Upon a Time to Be 14. Medievalism and Nationhood in Childrens Literature Clare Bradford 15. Set in Stone: Runes, Nation, Childhood Bjrn Sundmark 16. Post-Fordist Nation: The Economics of Childhood and the New Global Citizenship Abbie E Ventura 17. "I thought I lived in a country where I had rights": Conceptualising Child Citizenship in the Posthuman Era Victoria Flanagan Postscript: Where Children Rule? Kit Kelen and Bjrn Sundmark