1st Edition
Contemporary British Children's Fiction and Cosmopolitanism
Introduction 1. ‘We’re All Human, Aren’t We?’: Cosmopolitics in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter 2. ‘People and their Differences’: Cosmofeminism in Jackie Kay’s Strawgirl 3. ‘You Are a Team’: Reconfiguring Community in Theresa Breslin’s Divided City 4. ‘We’re all Connected’: Transnational Journeys in Gillian Cross’s Where I Belong 5. ‘Hope Amongst This Madness’: Peace Building in Kerry Drewery’s A Brighter Fear 6. ‘We Must Fight for a New Future’: Envisioning Tomorrow’s World in Saci Lloyd’s Momentum 7. ‘A New Home in the World’: Nomadic Writing and World Citizenship in Julie Bertagna’s Exodus Trilogy Conclusion
Biography
Fiona McCulloch is currently an independent scholar and was Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor in British Literature at the University of Connecticut, 2015.
"Fiona McCulloch’s most recent book marks an important contribution to studies of contemporary literature for children and young adults (YA). It makes an especially timely and telling intervention in a specifically Scottish critical landscape that has still to give proper, sustained attention to the rich and diverse modes of writing which it encompasses. In making a highly per-suasive, compelling, and densely argued case for the ethical relevance and reach of this body of work, McCulloch’s is surely the study that can redress that limitation."
- Sarah Dunnigan, University of Edinburgh, Scottish Literary Review
