The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children’s and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children’s literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children’s literature.
Author(s): Mavis Reimer
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 308
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION: Discourses of Home in Canadian Children's Literature......Page 12
CHAPTER 1 Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological Work of Canadian Children's Literature......Page 22
CHAPTER 2 Les représentations du « home » dans les romans historiques québécois destinés aux adolescents......Page 48
CHAPTER 3 Le home : un espace privilégié en littérature de jeunesse québécoise......Page 72
CHAPTER 4 Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition......Page 88
CHAPTER 5 Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors......Page 108
CHAPTER 6 At Home on Native Land: A Non-Aboriginal Canadian Scholar Discusses Aboriginality and Property in Canadian Double-Focalized Novels for Young Adults......Page 128
CHAPTER 7 White Picket Fences: At Home with Multicultural Children's Literature in Canada?......Page 158
CHAPTER 8 Windows as Homing Devices in Canadian Picture Books......Page 174
CHAPTER 9 The Homely Imaginary: Fantasies of Nationhood in Australian and Canadian Texts......Page 206
CHAPTER 10 Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People......Page 224
AFTERWORD: Homeward Bound?......Page 254
WORKS CITED......Page 262
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 290
A......Page 294
C......Page 295
F......Page 297
H......Page 298
I......Page 299
M......Page 300
N......Page 301
R......Page 302
V......Page 303
Z......Page 304
