Hintz / Ostry Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-37343-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hintz, Carrie

Ostry, Elaine

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Jack Zipes
Introduction Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Utopia in Transit
"Getting to Utopia: Railways and Heterotopia in Children's Literature," by Alice Jenkins
"American Boys' Series: Books and the Utopia of the Air," by Fred Arisman
"Travels through Dystopia: H.G. Wells and The Island of Dr. Moreau, " by Alberto Manguel
Community and Socialism
"Sarah Fielding's Childhood Utopia," by Sara Gadeken
"Tinklers and Time Machines: Time Travel in the Social Fantasy of E. Nesbit and H.G. Wells," by Cathrine Frank
"The Writing on the Wall of Redwall," by Holly V. Blackford
"'Joy but not Peace': Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green-sky Trilogy," by Carrie Hintz
"Terrible Lizard Dream Kingdom," by James Gurney
"Bridge to Utopia," by Katherine Paterson
Child Power
"Suffering in Utopia: Testing the Limits in Young Adult Novels," by Rebecca Carol Noel Totaro
"Educating Desire: Magic, Power and Control in Tanith Lee's Unicorn Trilogy," by Maureen F. Moran
"The Struggle Between Utopia and Dystopia in Writing for Children," by Monica Hughes
From The Wreckage:Post World War Two Dystopias and Utopias
"Presenting the Case for Social Change: The Creative Dilemma of Dystopian Fiction for Children," by Kay Sambell
"The Quest for the Perfect Planet: The British Secondary World as Utopia and Dystopia, 1945-1999," by Karen Sands-O'Connor
Interview with Lois Lowry, author of iThe Giver
Annotated Bibliography
Afterword by Lyman Tower Sargent
Index