Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0343372
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Transformative Utopianism: Contemporary Children's Literature Responding to Changing World Orders from Glasnost to 11 September, 2001. Political and cultural instabilities and conflicts from 1990 to the present have profoundly affected children's literature. Works of fiction in particular have deployed utopian and dystopian tropes to project possible futures to their implied readers. The project uses the concept of 'transformative utopianism' to suggest that these tropes do important social, cultural and political work by challenging and reformulating ideas about power and identity, community, the body, spatio-temporal change, and ecology. In this way the project draws together multiple theoretical interpretations of texts to demonstrate the responsiveness of children's literature to broader ideological, social, theoretical and pedagogical contexts.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2003
End Date: 12-2006
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $259,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Literature Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Literary Studies |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
