Clare Bradford

Made in New Zealand: Place and Enchantment in Margaret Mahy’s Picture Books

Publisher: Project MUSE

Date: 2014

DOI: 10.1353/CHQ.2014.0008

Oh how different!: Regimes of knowledge in aboriginal texts for children

Publisher: Project MUSE

Date: 2003

DOI: 10.1353/UNI.2003.0014

Bullies, the bullied and bullying narratives in contemporary fiction

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Date: 2018

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72275-7

Playing with father: Anthony Browne's picture books and the masculine

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 1998

DOI: 10.1023/A:1022407025112

Along the road to learn: Children and adults in the picture books of John Burningham

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 12-1994

DOI: 10.1007/BF02355301

The return of the fairy: Australian medievalist fantasy for the young

Publisher: Australian Literary Studies

Date: 10-2011

DOI: 10.20314/ALS.77DFC584C8

Children’s and young adult novels: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date: 21-06-2018

DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199679775.003.0018

Abstract: This chapter examines the history of children's and young adult fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. During the mid-twentieth century, fiction for the young in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand did not yet occupy a prominent place. In Australia, most children's fiction was produced and imported by British publishers. In Canada, markets and children's reading practices were dominated by American and (to a lesser extent) British imports until 1975. In Australia and New Zealand, children's novels began to gather strength in the late 1950s and 1960s. The chapter shows how the significance of children's fiction in the project of nation-building became to be recognised as a result of the growth of the educational publishing industry following World War II. It also considers the transnational relationships that pervade children's and young adult novels from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.

New world orders and the dystopian turn: Transforming visions of territoriality and belonging in recent Australian children's fiction

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 09-2008

DOI: 10.1080/14443050802294091

Muslim-Christian Relations and the Third Crusade: Medievalist Imaginings

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Date: 12-2009

DOI: 10.3366/E1755619809000684

Abstract: This article takes as its starting-point the responsiveness of children's literature to socio-political events, considering how contemporary anxieties about relationships between Muslim and Christian in iduals and cultures inform three historical novels set in the period of the Third Crusade (1189–92): Karleen Bradford's Lionheart's Scribe (1999), K. M. Grant's Blood Red Horse (2004), and Elizabeth Laird's Crusade (2008). In these novels, encounters between young Christian and Muslim protagonists are represented through language and representational modes which owe a good deal to the habits of thought and expression which typify orientalist discourses in Western fiction. In effect, the novels produce two versions of medievalism: a Muslim medieval world which is irretrievably pre-modern, locked into rigid practices and beliefs against which in iduals are powerless and a Christian medieval world which offers in iduals the possibility of progressing to an enhanced state of personal fulfilment. The article argues that the narratives of all three novels incorporate particularly telling moments when Christian protagonists return to England, regretfully leaving Muslim friends. The impossibility of enduring friendships between Muslims and Christians is based on the novels’ assumptions about the incommensurability of cultures and religions specifically, that there exists an unbridgeable gulf between Islam and Christianity.

Instilling postcolonial nostalgias : Ned Kelly narratives for children

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 06-2012

DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2012.674545

Literacy in the digital age: Learning from computer games

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 06-2009

DOI: 10.1111/J.1754-8845.2009.01035.X

“Everything must go!”: Consumerism and Reader Positioning in M. T. Anderson’s Feed

Publisher: Project MUSE

Date: 2010

DOI: 10.1353/JEU.2010.0029

Stories and Cultures

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Date: 12-2016

DOI: 10.3366/IRCL.2016.0197

Australian children’s literature

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 17-09-2009

DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521881654.014

Velma Bourgeois Richmond, chivalric stories as children’s literature: Edwardian retellings in words and pictures. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. Paper. Pp. 374; 80 black-and-white figures. $55. ISBN: 978-0-7864-9622-8.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Date: 07-2017

DOI: 10.1086/692262

The Case of Children's Literature: Colonial or Anti-Colonial?

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 2011

DOI: 10.2304/GSCH.2011.1.4.271

Abstract: 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.

'My blarsted greenstone throne!' Māori princesses and nationhood in New Zealand fiction for girls

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Date: 2014

DOI: 10.1057/9781137356352_7

Deakin University

Location: Australia

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AustLit: Phase Two - Humanities Research Infrastructure Development, Augmentation And Expansion

Start Date: 2007

End Date: 2007

Funder: Australian Research Council

Transformative Utopianism: Contemporary Children's Literature Responding To Changing World Orders From Glasnost To 11 September, 2001

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 2005

Funder: Australian Research Council

AustLit Phase Two: Research Infrastructure For Humanities And Education Researchers

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 2008

Funder: Australian Research Council

AustLit Phase Three: Transforming The Study Of Australian Literature Through A Collaborative EResearch Environment

Start Date: 2009

End Date: 2009

Funder: Australian Research Council

Building Cultural Citizenship: Multiculturalism And Children's Literature

Start Date: 2005

End Date: 2008

Funder: Australian Research Council

From Colonial To Modern: Transnational Girlhood In Australian, New Zealand, And Canadian Print Cultures (1840-1940)

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 2013

Funder: Australian Research Council

Literacy In The Digital World Of The Twenty-first Century: Learning From Computer Games

Start Date: 2007

End Date: 2009

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0775619

Start Date: 03-2007

End Date: 02-2008

Amount: $350,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0989090

Start Date: 2009

End Date: 05-2010

Amount: $650,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343372

Start Date: 04-2003

End Date: 12-2006

Amount: $259,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0775072

Start Date: 04-2007

End Date: 06-2010

Amount: $150,999.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0882507

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 03-2009

Amount: $500,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0557358

Start Date: 05-2005

End Date: 12-2009

Amount: $267,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP110101082

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 12-2014

Amount: $261,346.00

Funder: Australian Research Council