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Comparative literature --- sprookjes --- literaire adaptatie --- jeugdliteratuur --- English fiction --- Fairy tales in literature. --- Literature and folklore --- History and criticism. --- History --- Joyce, James, --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Barnes, Djuna --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. In this conception, the insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power relations in recent children's novels reveals significant tensions, or even contradictions, with regards to the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children's literature in Britain is shown to have been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is seen as both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. The author examines the ways in which children's fictions have challenged dominant structures of power and imperial ideologies while sometimes straddling the border between subversion and an uneasy complicity. The texts analysed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, the author demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young. Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature combines a critical survey of contemporary British writing for children and young adults with the central concerns of postcolonial studies. It reveals complex engagements with questions of national identity, cultural hybridity, decolonization, and diasporic culture within contemporary British children's literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- postkolonialisme --- politiek --- jeugdliteratuur --- Roman anglais pour la jeunesse --- Roman anglais --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Histoire et critique. --- Children's stories, English --- Children's stories, English. --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- Histoires pour enfants anglaises --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- 1900-2099.

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An important and perceptive contribution to the study of children's literature, this welcome reissue includes a new postscript exploring in detail the phenomenal success of J.K.Rowling's series of Harry Potter stories.

Children's stories, English --- American fiction --- English fiction --- Children's stories, American --- Psychological fiction --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- Love in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- jeugdliteratuur --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature

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The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of Victorian values in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the traditional, natural family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering and stepfamilies were endemic.

Thematology --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- imago --- familie --- jeugdliteratuur --- anno 1800-1899 --- Children's stories, English --- Domestic relations in literature. --- English fiction --- Families in literature. --- Home in literature. --- Idealism in literature. --- Literature and society --- Social problems in literature. --- Values in literature. --- Orthopedagogiek --- History and criticism. --- History --- gezinsproblemen.

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"Marketing literature" is a timely, original and important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. It analyses the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, format, packaging, authorship and reading. This innovative work includes case studies of Irvin Welsh's Trainspotting, Louis de Bernières's Captain Corelli's mandolin, Arundhati Roy's The God of small things and David Mitchell's Cloud atlas, and significantly extends our understanding of the circulation of literary fiction in a period of notable change.

Literature --- literatuur --- marketing --- Books --- English fiction --- Fiction --- Literature publishing --- Marketing --- History and criticism --- Publishing --- 655.4 <41> --- 820 "20" --- Literary publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- 820 "20" Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Philosophy