Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-0-415-88634-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Broadly, Superle contends that over the past twenty years an aspirational view of childhood has developed in this literature—a view that positions children as powerful participants in the project of enabling positive social transformation. Her main argument, formed after recognizing several overarching thematic and structural patterns in more than one hundred texts, is that the novels comprise an aspirational literature with a transformative agenda: they imagine apparently empowered child characters who perform in diverse ways in the process of successfully creating and shaping the ideal Indian nation, their own well-adjusted bicultural identities in the diaspora, and/or their own empowered girlhoods.
Michelle Superle is a Professor in the department of Communications at Okanagan College. She has taught children’s literature, composition, and creative writing courses at various Canadian universities and has published articles in Papers and IRCL.
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Introduction: Contemporary, English-Language Indian Children's Novels as Aspirational Literature 1. The Development of Contemporary, English-Language Indian Children's Novels 2. Indian Women Writers: Imagining the New Indian Girl 3. Imagining Unity in Diversity through Cooperation and Friendship 4. Imagining and Performing the Indian Nation 5. Imagining "Indianness" 6. Imagining Identity in the Diaspora: Performing a "masala" Self 7. Performing New Indian Girlhood 8. Conclusion: Old and New Boundaries