1st Edition

Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature

By Blanka Grzegorczyk Copyright 2020
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Unhealed Wounds

Chapter 2 Precarious Lives

Chapter 3 Subcultural Spaces

Chapter 4 The Reluctant Terrorist

Chapter 5 At Home in Wonderland

Conclusion

Index

Biography

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