1st Edition

Postcolonial Intersectionality in Contemporary Children’s Literature Reading Across Worlds

By Blanka Grzegorczyk Copyright 2027
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Postcolonial Intersectionality in Contemporary Children’s Literature explores how we can read postcolonial writing for the young today, and how the themes and structures of that writing might enrich readers’ insight into the various margins, crossings, and subversions of their own worlds. Postcolonial writing for the young is not merely a mirror to contemporary issues such as continued racial... Read more

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Postcoloniality, Girlhood, and Gender; 2. Postcolonialism and the Environment; 3. Towards and Beyond Matter; 4. Postcolonialism and the Gothic; 5. Postcolonialism, Mobility, and Globalisation; Index

Biography

Blanka Grzegorczyk teaches at the University of Cambridge and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature (2015) and Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature (2020).