Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hintz, Carrie; Ostry, Elaine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. The book includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135373368
• Artikelnr.: 39704672

Autorenporträt

Jack Zipes, Carrie Hintz, Elaine Ostry

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Carrie Hintz
Elaine Ostry; Part 1 Planes
Trains
and Automobiles: Utopia in Transit; Chapter 2 Getting to Utopia: Railways and Heterotopia in Children's Literature
Alice Jenkins; Chapter 3 American Boys' Series Books and the Utopia of the Air
Fred Erisman; Chapter 4 Travels through Dystopia: H. G. Wells and The Island of Dr. Moreau
Alberto Manguel; Part 2 Community and Socialism; Chapter 5 Sarah Fielding's Childhood Utopia
Sara Gadeken; Chapter 6 Tinklers and Time Machines: Time Travel in the Social Fantasy of E. Nesbit and H. G. Wells
Cathrine Frank; Chapter 7 The Writing on the Wall of Redwall
Holly V. Blackford; Chapter 8 'Joy but Not Peace': Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green-sky Trilogy
Carrie Hintz; Chapter 9 Terrible Lizard Dream Kingdom
James Gurney; Chapter 10 Bridge to Utopia
Katherine Paterson; Part 3 Child Power; Chapter 11 Suffering in Utopia: Testing the Limits in Young Adult Novels
Rebecca Carol Noël Totaro; Chapter 12 Educating Desire: Magic
Power
and Control in Tanith Lee's Unicorn Trilogy
Maureen F. Moran; Chapter 13 The Struggle between Utopia and Dystopia in Writing for Children and Young Adults
Monica Hughes; Part 4 From the Wreckage: Post-World War II Dystopias and Utopias; Chapter 14 Presenting the Case for Social Change: The Creative Dilemma of Dystopian Writing for Children
Kay Sambell; Chapter 15 The Quest for the Perfect Planet: The British Secondary World as Utopia and Dystopia
1945-1999
Karen Sands-O'Connor;

Rezensionen

"Hintz and Ostry make an important contribution to the study of children's literature. Their excellent introductory survey is followed by ten critical essays that discuss the creation of imaginary worlds, their social organization, and the routes fictional characters must take to reach them." -- Choice
"Being the first annotated bibliography of utopian and dystopian writing for children and young adults is reason enough for this book to have a place on a shelf. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty." -- Choice
"Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children will have a permanent place in my bookshelf. Very well edited, its essays are complimentary, wide ranging, thought provoking, and all in all, a very fine contribution to studies of children's fiction generally, and to studies of childrens' fantasy and science fiction more specifically." -- Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex University, Science Fiction Studies