(Re)imagining the World Children's literature's response to changing times /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wu, Yan (Editor), Mallan, Kerry (Editor), McGillis, Roderick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: New Frontiers of Educational Research,
• Subjects: Education.; Education, general.

(Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for c...

Table of Contents:

• Contributors
• Introduction: The world is never too much with us
• 1. Reading: From Turning the Page to Touching the Screen
• 2. Knowledge: Navigating the Visual Ecology: Information Literacy and the ‘Knowledgescape’ in Young Adult Fiction
• 3. Consumption: The Appeal of Abundance in Bookspace and Playspace
• 4. Discovery: My Name is Elizabeth: Discovery in Children’s Literature
• 5. Childhoods: Childhoods in Chinese Children’s Texts: Continuous Reconfiguration for Political Needs
• 6. Imagination: Imaginations of the Nation: Childhood and Children’s Literature in Modern China
• 7. Migrancy: Rites of Passage and Cultural Translation in Literature for Children and Young Adult
• 8. Food: Changing Approaches to Food in the Construction of Childhood in Western Culture
• 9. Empathy: Narrative Empathy and Children’s Literature
• 10. Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance
• 11. Memory: (Re)imagining the Past Through Children’s Literature
• 12. Future: Nan’s future expectation and her views on children’s literature
• Index.    .