Metamorphoses in Children's Literature and Culture 1.p.

Enostone 2009 Pehmeäkantinen

1.painos

335 sivua

Mukana käännös runosta Herra Pii Poo - Mr- Pii Poo

Barbara Drillsma-Milgrom and Leena Kirstinä (eds.): Metamorphoses in children's literature and culture

The book has been thematically grouped into six sections, so that the papers are in dialogical relationships. The first part of the book is called Changing Ideas about Child and Childhood. It examines metaphoric aspects of metamorphosis in the concept of childhood and in the reading of children’s literature. In the second part - Some Historical Views - some cases look back to the history of children’s literature and culture, while in the third part - How Does Children’s Literature Meet Environmental and Cultural Problems? - the articles give various answers to that question. They lead us to colonialism, cultural diversity and national or international identity discussed in children’s books.

The fourth thematical circle is Places, Spaces, and Scapes of Mind which analyses examples of spatial metaphors, i.e. such mysterious one in the children’s literature as forest. The following section Identities in Metamorphic State deals with the gender problematic and the idea of childhood and youth as special spaces of growth; the articles at the same time approaching the original Ovidian problematic. The book ends by contacting the child itself in his/her natural space and in his/her own culture, which is playing. The section called Child, Play, and Commercial Culture opens out the discussion to artistic modes and cultural practices other than textual ones.

The book will be useful, if not necessary, for every one who, as a student or professor or researcher is interested in the recent perspectives of children’s literature and culture.

Hakusanoja: Lapset lasten kulttuuri kasvatus Kirsi Kunnas