ENG 251: Children's Literature

Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government. Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films.

Includes two relevant chapters: "Reading into the Voice: Representation of the Native Voice in Three Early Twentieth-Century Children's Story Collections" and "Children's Literature and Indigenous Peoples"

Includes relevant chapter: "Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors"

Includes relevant chapter: "Native American"

Includes relevant chapter: "Native Americans"

Includes relevant chapter: "Native Americans in Children's Books of the Twentieth Century"