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Children’s and young adult novels: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific
© Oxford University Press 2017. This chapter examines the history of children’s and young adult fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. During the mid-twentieth century, fiction for the young in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand did not yet occupy a prominent place. In Australia, most children’s fiction was produced and imported by British publishers. In Canada, markets and children’s reading practices were dominated by American and (to a lesser extent) British imports until 1975. In Australia and New Zealand, children’s novels began to gather strength in the late 1950s and 1960s. The chapter shows how the significance of children’s fiction in the project of nation-building became to be recognised as a result of the growth of the educational publishing industry following World War II. It also considers the transnational relationships that pervade children’s and young adult novels from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
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The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950Volume
12Series
The Oxford History of the Novel in EnglishChapter number
15Pagination
236 - 250Publisher
Oxford University PressPlace of publication
Oxford, Eng.Publisher DOI
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9780199679775Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterExtent
35Editor/Contributor(s)
C Howells, P Sharrad, G TurcotteUsage metrics
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