National Character in South African English Children''s Literature

Informationen zum Autor Elwyn Jenkins was born and educated in South Africa. He has had a career in school teaching, teacher education, and university teaching and management. Now retired, he is Professor Emeritus and Professor Extraordinarius in English at the University of South Africa. He has written two books on children's literature and two on place names. Klappentext This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of the country and its society authors concentrated on. What gives this book particular strength is its coverage of literature up to the 1960s, which has until now received almost no scholarly attention. Not only is this earlier literature a rewarding subject for study in itself, but it also throws light on subsequent literary developments. Another exceptional feature is that the book follows the author's previous work in placing children's literature in the context of adult South African literature and South African cultural history (e.g. cinema). He also makes enlightening comparisons with American, Canadian and Australian children's literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Country Children Famous Writers and Books Ecology Fairies, Talking Animals and Patriotism Folktales Stories in the Folktale Tradition The San and the National Conscience Cross-Cultural Dressing, Nudity and Cultural Identity City Children Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Elwyn Jenkins, Jenkins Elwyn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9780415976763
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97676-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Children's Literature and Cult; Children's Literature and Culture; Children's Literature and Cult
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Südafrika, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, allgemein, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism