Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological Work of Canadian Children’s Literature 1
7. Les représentations du « home » dans les romans historiques québécois destinés aux adolescents 27
8. Le home : un espace privilégié en littérature de jeunesse québécoise 51
9. Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition 67
10. Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors 87
11. At Home on Native Land: A Non-Aboriginal Canadian Scholar Discusses Aboriginality and Property in Canadian Double-Focalized Novels for Young Adults 107
12. White Picket Fences: At Home with Multicultural Children’s Literature in Canada? 129
13. Windows as Homing Devices in Canadian Picture Books 145
14. The Homely Imaginary: Fantasies of Nationhood in Australian and Canadian Texts 177
15. Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People 195
16. Homeward Bound? 225
17. Works Cited 233
18. Notes on Contributors 261
19. Index 265
20. Books in the Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada Series 276