(Re)imagining the World Children's literature's response to changing times /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wu, Yan. (Editor), Mallan, Kerry. (Editor), McGillis, Roderick. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: New Frontiers of Educational Research,
• Subjects: Education.; Education (general).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36760-1

(Re)Imagining the world: Childrens Literatures Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine the world, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for c...

Table of Contents:

• Contributors
• Introduction: The world is never too much with us
• 1. Reading: From Turning the Page to Touching the Screen
• 2.�Knowledge: Navigating the Visual Ecology: Information Literacy and the Knowledgescape in Young Adult Fiction
• 3.�Consumption: The Appeal of Abundance in Bookspace and Playspace
• 4.�Discovery: My Name is Elizabeth: Discovery in Childrens Literature
• 5. Childhoods: Childhoods in Chinese Childrens Texts: Continuous Reconfiguration for Political Needs
• 6.�Imagination: Imaginations of the Nation: Childhood and Childrens Literature in Modern China
• 7. Migrancy: Rites of Passage and Cultural Translation in Literature for Children and Young Adult
• 8.�Food: Changing Approaches to Food in the Construction of Childhood in Western Culture
• 9.�Empathy: Narrative Empathy and Childrens Literature
• 10.�Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance
• 11.�Memory: (Re)imagining the Past Through Childrens Literature
• 12.�Future: Nans future expectation and her views on childrens literature
• Index. � �.