Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature

Blanka Grzegorczyk

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Routledge
07 November 2014

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Children's literature studies: general

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

This book considers how contemporary British children’s books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain’s imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. The insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power structures in recent children’s novels exposes the complexities and contradictions surrounding the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity.

Postcolonial children’s literature in Britain has been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. Grzegorczyk considers the ways in which children’s fictions have worked with and against particular ideologies of race. The texts analyzed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, Grzegorczyk demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young.

By: Blanka Grzegorczyk
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 100
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780415720274
ISBN 10: 0415720273
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 07 November 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"1. The Politics of Children’s Literature 2. The Empire Within: Migrant and Post-Migrant Coming-of-Age Novels 3. Rewriting Colonial Histories in Historical Fictions For the Young: From Below and Above 4. ""Empires of the Mind"": Intersections of Children’s Fantasy and Postcolonialism 5. The (Post)Colonial Exotic: Representing the Other in Adventure Stories for the Young"

Blanka Grzegorczyk is a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland and has been a member of the Centre for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the University of Wroclaw Institute of English Studies since 2007. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary children’s literature, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory.

Reviews for Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature

...the book is a successful survey, deftly bringing together texts that deserve much more attention than they are receiving, both in terms of scholarship and children's literature courses, which too often bear the signs of an overly rigid adherence to prevailing definitions of what counts as children's literature. - Heather Snell, University of Winnipeg, in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 9.1 (2017)