New world orders in contemporary children's literature [electronic resource] : utopian transformations /
by Bradford, Clare; ProQuest (Firm).
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BookPublisher: Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: vi, 207 p.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Children's stories, English -- History and criticism | Utopias in literature | Utopias in motion pictures | Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
A new world order or a new dark age? -- Children's texts, new world orders and transformative possibilities -- Masters, slaves and entrepreneurs: globalised utopias and new world order(ing)s -- The lure of the lost paradise: postcolonial utopias -- Reweaving nature and culture: reading ecocritically -- 'Radiant with possibility': communities and utopianism -- Ties that bind: reconceptualising home and family -- The struggle to be human in a posthuman world -- The future: what are our prospects?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.
A new world order or a new dark age? -- Children's texts, new world orders and transformative possibilities -- Masters, slaves and entrepreneurs: globalised utopias and new world order(ing)s -- The lure of the lost paradise: postcolonial utopias -- Reweaving nature and culture: reading ecocritically -- 'Radiant with possibility': communities and utopianism -- Ties that bind: reconceptualising home and family -- The struggle to be human in a posthuman world -- The future: what are our prospects?
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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