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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ciara Ní BhroinPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.467kg ISBN: 9783030733940ISBN 10: 3030733947 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 23 May 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 Home Childhood and Children’s Literature Changing Concepts of Home Home, Homeland and Childhood Irish Children’s Fiction: Home, Homeland and Decolonization 3 Recovery of Origins: Myths of Homeland and Return in the Fantasy Fiction of O.R. Melling Nostalgia and Essentialism Mother Ireland and the Female Returnee Unity and Duality The Viability of Ireland as Home 4 Continuity and Change: The Tradition / Modernity Dialectic in the Construction of Home in Kate Thompson’s The New Policeman and Creature of the Night Positioning Thompson in an Irish Literary Tradition A Place Called Home Tradition, Modernity and the Unhomely Mother, Home and Male Subjectivity 5 Internationalization or Globalization? Myth Technology and Mobility in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl Series Globalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism Technology and Power Mobility and Privilege Home, Boundedness and Surveillance 6 Inclusions and Exclusions: Debunking Myths of Home and Homelessness in the Fiction of Siobhán Parkinson Re-visioning the Past Debunking the Myth of the West as Home Voices from the Edge Sameness and Difference 7 Unhomely Secrets in the Work of Siobhan Dowd Transgressive Females, Home and the Close-Knit Community Borders, Partition and Male Subjectivity Myths of Mother(land) and Return Secrets, Revelations and the Possibility of Home 8: Conclusion IndexReviewsAuthor InformationCiara Ní Bhroin is a founding member and former president of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature. She lectured for many years in English language, literacy and literature at the Marino Institute of Education, an associated college of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She has published a range of articles and book chapters on children’s literature and is co-editor of What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |