Internationalism in children's series /

Internationalism in Children's Series investigates 'internationalism' through various cultural, historical and theoretical lenses in series created for a child readership. Using the familiarity of the series character and format to form a bridge to the wider world, authors from the ni...

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Other Authors: Sands-O'Connor, Karen (Editor), Frank, Marietta (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Critical approaches to children's literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Stepping out into the world : series and internationalism / Karen Sands-O'Connor
  • Young Americans abroad : Jacob Abbott's Rollo on the Grand Tour and nineteenth-century travel series books / Chris Nesmith
  • Our girls in the family of nations : girls' culture and Empire in Victorian girls' magazines / Janis Dawson
  • The Stratemeyer Chums have fun in the Caribbean : American and Empire in children's series / Karen Sands-O'Connor
  • 'A really big theme' : Americanization and world peace
  • internationalism and/as nationalism in Lucy Fitch Perkin's Twins series / Jani L. Barker
  • 'A bit of life actually lived in a foreign land' : internationalism as world friendship in children's series / Marietta A. Frank
  • Lost cities : generic conventions, hidden places, and primitivism in juvenile series mysteries / Michael G. Cornelius
  • 'Buy why are you so foreign?' : Blyton and Blighty / David Rudd
  • 'Universal republic of children?' : 'other' children in Doǧan Kardeş children's periodical / Denis Arzuk
  • Wizard in translation : linguistic and cultural concerns in Harry Potter / Hilary Brewster
  • 'Hungry ghosts' : Kirsty Murray's Irish-Australian Children of the Wind series / Charlotte Beyer
  • Building bridges to intercultural understanding : the other in contemporary Irish children's literature / Patricia Kennon.