Irish Children's Literature and Culture

New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-87789-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization. It contextualizes modern Irish children’s literature in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, as well as in relation to Irish writing for adults, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area.

What constitutes a "national literature" is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish context. Until recently, there was only a slight body of work that could be classified as "Irish children’s literature" in comparison with Ireland’s contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. The contributors to the volume examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and children’s literature internationally, raising provocative questions about the future of the topic. Irish Children’s Literature and Culture is essential reading for those interested in Irish literature, culture, sociology, childhood, and children’s literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Keith

Coghlan, Valerie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Picture Books that Transcend Boundaries Sandra Beckett 2. Belief and Unbelief: Inscriptions of Religion and Cultural Identity Valerie Coghlan 3. Contemplating Otherness in Speculative Fiction Patricia Kennon 4. Child’s Play: The Child and the Nation Jarlath Kileen 5. Walking into the Night: Growing up with the Gothic Anne Markey 6. ‘The past is gone anyway’: The importance of Memory and History Sharon Murphy 7. Mythologizing the Present Ciara Ní Bhroin 8. Location, Location, Location: The Significance of Place Eilís Ní Dhuibne 9. Insularity and Internationalism: Between Local Production and the Global Marketplace Emer O’Sullivan 10. Linguistic and Narratological Representations of Selfhood Keith O’Sullivan 11. Family Amanda Piesse 12. Meanings and Means: Children's Poetry Mary Shine Thompson 13. The Irish Call of Aladdin: "New Tales for Old!" Máire Uí Mhaicín 14. Coming of Age and Youth Culture Pádraic Whyte

Über Autor(innen)

Coghlan, Valerie
Valerie Coghlan, Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, is a librarian and lecturer. She is a former co-editor of Bookbird: An International Journal of Children's Literature. She has published widely on Irish children's literature and co-edited several books on the topic. She is a former board member of the IRSCL, and a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature, Children's Books Ireland, and IBBY Ireland.

O'Sullivan, Keith
Keith O’Sullivan lectures in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin. He is a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature, a former member of the board of directors of Children’s Books Ireland, and past chair of the Children’s Books Ireland/Bisto Book of the Year Awards. He has published on the works of Philip Pullman and Emily Brontë.