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The case of children's literature : colonial or anti-colonial? Bradford, Clare 2011, The case of children's literature : colonial or anti-colonial?, Global Studies of Childhood, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 271-279. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads bradford-caseof-2011.pdf Published version application/pdf 150.66KB 2 Title The case of children's literature : colonial or anti-colonial? Author(s) Bradford, Clare Journal name Global Studies of Childhood Volume number 1 Issue number 4 Start page 271 End page 279 Total pages 9 Publisher Symposium Journals Place of publication Oxford, U.K. Publication date 2011 ISSN 2043-6106 Summary Since Jacqueline Rose published The Case of Peter Pan in 1984, scholars in the field of children’s literature have taken up a rhetorical stance which treats child readers as colonised, and children’s books as a colonising site. This article takes issue with Rose’s rhetoric of colonisation and its deployment by scholars, arguing that it is tainted by logical and ethical flaws. Rather, children’s literature can be a site of decolonisation which revisions the hierarchies of value promoted through colonisation and its aftermath by adopting what Bill Ashcroft refers to as tactics of interpolation. To illustrate how decolonising strategies work in children’s texts, the article considers several alphabet books by Indigenous author-illustrators from Canada and Australia, arguing that these texts for very young children interpolate colonial discourses by valorising minority languages and by attributing to English words meanings produced within Indigenous cultures. Language eng Field of Research 200508 Other Literatures in English Socio Economic Objective 950203 Languages and Literature HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2011 Copyright notice ©2011, Symposium Journals Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30045293 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 14 May 2012, 15:13:41 EST Mon, 14 May 2012, 15:14:28 EST Tue, 15 May 2012, 10:04:35 EST Tue, 15 May 2012, 17:01:32 EST Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 15:06:25 EST Mon, 23 Jun 2014, 15:23:19 EST Mon, 23 Jun 2014, 15:23:58 EST Fri, 27 Jun 2014, 15:01:42 EST Fri, 27 Jun 2014, 15:02:26 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 115 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 14 May 2012, 15:13:29 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas

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