In this Book

summary

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.

Table of Contents

restricted access Download Full Book
  1. Cover
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Frontmatter
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CONTENTS
  2. pp. v-vi
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. LIST OF FIGURES
  2. pp. vii-viii
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  2. pp. ix-x
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. INTRODUCTION: Discourses of Home in Canadian Children's Literature
  2. pp. xi-xx
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 1: Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological Work of Canadian Children's Literature
  2. pp. 1-26
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 2: Les représentations du « home » dans les romans historiques québécois destinés aux adolescents
  2. pp. 27-50
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 3: Le home : un espace privilégié en littérature de jeunesse québécoise
  2. pp. 51-66
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 4: Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition
  2. pp. 67-86
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 5: Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors
  2. pp. 87-106
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 6 At Home on Native Land: A Non-Aboriginal Canadian Scholar Discusses Aboriginality and Property in Canadian Double-Focalized Novels for Young Adults
  2. pp. 107-128
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 7: White Picket Fences: At Home with Multicultural Children's Literature in Canada?
  2. pp. 129-144
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 8: Windows as Homing Devices in Canadian Picture Books
  2. pp. 145-176
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 9: The Homely Imaginary: Fantasies of Nationhood in Australian and Canadian Texts
  2. pp. 177-194
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CHAPTER 10: Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People
  2. pp. 195-224
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. AFTERWORD: Homeward Bound?
  2. pp. 225-232
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. WORKS CITED
  2. pp. 233-260
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. CONTRIBUTORS
  2. pp. 261-264
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. INDEX
  2. pp. 265-276
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.