Writing the Australian Child: Texts and Contexts in Fictions for Children

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Clare Bradford
UWA Publishing, 1996 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 187 pages
This collection of essays redresses the paucity of literary critical material explicitly theorising text created for children. Drawing on Australian children's books and a range of theoretical perspectives, the essays consider a variety of topics, from clothed animals as metafictional markers to post-modern versions of Peter Pan.
 

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Subjectivity and
17
Repression
55
ALICE MILLS Aphrodite in a Blue Dress
76
Postcolonial
92
The Construction
111
LEONIE RUTHERFORD Finding the Mother Finding the Child
126
JOHN STEPHENS Childrens Literature Interdisciplinarity
161
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
181
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