The Case of Children's Literature
Colonial or Anti-Colonial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Bradford (0000-0001-8620-540X, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 271-279 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/gsch.2011.1.4.271 |
| OpenAlex | W2102278160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
Since Jacqueline Rose published The Case of Peter Pan in 1984, scholars in the field of children's literature have taken up a rhetorical stance which treats child readers as colonised, and children's books as a colonising site. This article takes issue with Rose's rhetoric of colonisation and its deployment by scholars, arguing that it is tainted by logical and ethical flaws. Rather, children's literature can be a site of decolonisation which revisions the hierarchies of value promoted through colonisation and its aftermath by adopting what Bill Ashcroft refers to as tactics of interpolation. To illustrate how decolonising strategies work in children's texts, the article considers several alphabet books by Indigenous author-illustrators from Canada and Australia, arguing that these texts for very young children interpolate colonial discourses by valorising minority languages and by attributing to English words meanings produced within Indigenous cultures
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Colonisation · Decolonization · Field (mathematics · Indigenous · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Literacy, Media, and Education · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |