Contemporary British Children''s Fiction and Cosmopolitanism

This book visits contemporary British children's and YA fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization's dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical, humanitarian, and political outlook of convivial planetary community. McCulloch addresses how children's and YA fiction imagines not only the nation but the world beyond, disrupting binary divisions through a cosmopolitical outlook. The texts visited envision British society's position and role within a global arena of issues, including global conflicts, gender, racial politics, ecology, and climate change.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I
Ethical Endeavours
1 ‘We’re All Human, Aren’t We?’: Scottish Cosmopolitics in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
2 ‘People and their Differences’: Cosmofeminism in Jackie Kay’s Strawgirl
Part II
Conflict and Conciliation
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
Part III
Future Freedoms
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
Index

Product details

• Authors: Fiona McCulloch, McCulloch Fiona
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138828308
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82830-8
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Age groups: children, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Children's & teenage literature studies, Civics and citizenship, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general