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OverviewThough obvious, the productiveness of combining the three concepts of childhood, otherness and the postcolonial has not inspired much academic inquiry so far. The essays assembled in this book make up for this omission and address aspects of growing up in Australia and New Zealand from various angles. They base their argument on the premise that, whether in settler, migrant or indigenous communities, children tend to be ascribed a space of their own, mostly outside but never independent of that of adults. How adults configure this space both practically and imaginatively, for instance in the arts, in adult and children's literature, in film and photography, or in historical documents, is one of the questions answered in the process. How these configurations have developed with time and under the influence of specific historical circumstances is another. Thus, the individual papers are more than a contribution to the current (re-)discovery of the theme of childhood in European cultures in that Antipodean Childhoods remains centrally concerned with the cultural specificity of childhoods lived in Australia and New Zealand and with the theoretical relevance of this specificity to postcolonial literary, cultural and historical studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helga Ramsey-Kurz , Ulla RatheiserPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Weight: 0.236kg ISBN: 9781443823722ISBN 10: 1443823724 Pages: 215 Publication Date: 13 June 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationHelga Ramsey-Kurz is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has published widely on postcolonial literature. Her more recent publications include The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English and Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature.Ulla Ratheiser teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her PhD thesis focused on childhood and child characters in Patricia Grace's novels. She has presented and published several papers on Maori and diasporic literatures. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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