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Internationalism in Children's Series / edited by Karen Sands-O'Connor, Buffalo State University, USA and Marietta Frank, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
- Title
- Internationalism in Children's Series / edited by Karen Sands-O'Connor, Buffalo State University, USA and Marietta Frank, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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- Description
- 215 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Internationalism in Children's Series investigates 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses in series created for a child readership. Using the familiarity of the series character and format to form a bridge to the wider world, authors from the nineteenth century to contemporary times have expanded the definition of internationalism. This volume examines these definitions as they vary from series to series and even book to book in a rapidly changing, ever-shrinking world. Series with a specific international focus, such as The Twins of the World series that take an occasional trip outside of their home country, such as the various Stratemeyer Syndicate series, as well as those which are 'accidentally' international, such as Enid Blyton's various series, all contribute to a child's understanding of global integration. From imperialism to transnationalism, from Tom Swift to Harry Potter, this book addresses the unique ability of series to introduce children to the world.
- Series Statement
- Critical approaches to children's literature
- Uniform Title
- Critical approaches to children's literature.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Stepping out into the world : series and internationalism / Karen Sands-O'Connor -- Young Americans abroad : Jacob Abbott's Rollo on the Grand Tour and nineteenth-century travel series books / Chris Nesmith -- Our girls in the family of nations : girls' culture and Empire in Victorian girls' magazines / Janis Dawson -- The Stratemeyer Chums have fun in the Caribbean : American and Empire in children's series / Karen Sands-O'Connor -- 'A really big theme' : Americanization and world peace - internationalism and/as nationalism in Lucy Fitch Perkin's Twins series / Jani L. Barker -- 'A bit of life actually lived in a foreign land' : internationalism as world friendship in children's series / Marietta A. Frank -- Lost cities : generic conventions, hidden places, and primitivism in juvenile series mysteries / Michael G. Cornelius -- 'Buy why are you so foreign?' : Blyton and Blighty / David Rudd -- 'Universal republic of children?' : 'other' children in Doǧan Kardeş children's periodical / Denis Arzuk -- Wizard in translation : linguistic and cultural concerns in Harry Potter / Hilary Brewster -- 'Hungry ghosts' : Kirsty Murray's Irish-Australian Children of the Wind series / Charlotte Beyer -- Building bridges to intercultural understanding : the other in contemporary Irish children's literature / Patricia Kennon.
- ISBN
- 9781137360304
- 1137360305
- LCCN
- ^^2014018533
- OCLC
- 879553091
- SCSB-12607976
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library