Imagining sameness and difference in children's literature : from the Enlightenment to the present day
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Imagining sameness and difference in children's literature : from the Enlightenment to the present day
（Critical approaches to children's literature / series editors, Kerry Mallan and Clare Bradford）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children's literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood. The chapters address different models of presenting foreigners using examples from children's educational prints, dramatic performances, travel narratives, comics, and picture books. Contributors illuminate the ways in which the texts negotiate the tensions between the Enlightenment ideal of internationalism and discrete national or ethnic identities cultivated since the Romantic era, providing examples of ethnocentric cultural perspectives and of cultural relativism, as well as instances where discussions of child reader agency indicate how they might participate eventually in a tolerant transnational community.
Table of Contents
Contents
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
1 Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature: An Introduction
Emer O'Sullivan
Part I. Ethnography on Display
2 Learning to See: Eighteenth-Century Children's Prints and the Discourse of Othering
Silke Meyer
3 Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations
Emer O'Sullivan
4 Figuring the World: Representing Children's Encounters with Other Peoples and Cultures at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Gillian Lathey
5 Imagining the World in Bavarian Children's Books: Place and Other as Engineered by Lothar Meggendorfer
Amanda M. Brian
Part II. Internationalism and Tolerance
6 Imagining Equality: The Emergence of the Ideas of Tolerance, Universalism, and Human Rights in Danish Magazines for Children, 1750-1800
Nina Christensen
7 An Anthropologist Shows Girls a World of Difference: Louis-Francois Jauffret's Geographie dramatique
Cynthia J. Koepp
8 Information or Exoticization? Constructing Religious Difference in Children's Information Books
Gabriele von Glasenapp
Part III. Constructing Self and Nation
9 Anxious Encounters: Picturing the Street Child in On the Sidewalks of New York
Lara Saguisag
10 Russian Picturebooks from 1922 to 1934: Modernization, Sense of Nationhood, Internationalism
Verena Rutschmann
11 Appropriating the "Wild North": The Image of Canada and Its Exploitation in German Children's Literature
Martina Seifert
12 Travel as Construction of Self and Nation
Margaret R. Higonnet
Index
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