03709oam 2200721I 450 991078953210332120230725031420.01-136-72086-31-283-15098-097866131509811-136-72087-10-203-81625-010.4324/9780203816257 (CKB)2670000000094379(EBL)692372(OCoLC)730151699(SSID)ssj0000521691(PQKBManifestationID)11340935(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521691(PQKBWorkID)10522945(PQKB)10211632(MiAaPQ)EBC692372(Au-PeEL)EBL692372(CaPaEBR)ebr10477496(CaONFJC)MIL315098(OCoLC)730503712(EXLCZ)99267000000009437920180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary English-language Indian children's literature representations of nation, culture, and the new Indian girl /Michelle SuperleNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (207 p.)Children's literature and culture ;78Description based upon print version of record.1-138-84990-1 0-415-88634-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Novels as Aspirational Literature; Chapter 1. The Development of Contemporary, English-language Indian Children's Novels; Chapter 2. Indian Women Writers: Imagining the New Indian Girl; Chapter 3. Imagining Unity in Diversity through Cooperation and Friendship; Chapter 4. Imagining and Performing the Indian Nation; Chapter 5. Imagining "Indianness"Chapter 6. Imagining Identity in the Diaspora: Performinga "Masala" SelfChapter 7. Performing New Indian Girlhood; Conclusion: Old and New Boundaries; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; IndexConcurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children's writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children's novels published between 1988 and 2008 in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North AmChildren's literature and culture ;78.Children's literature, Indic (English)History and criticismIndic fiction (English)Women authorsHistory and criticismChildrenBooks and readingIndiaGender identityIndiaIndiaIn literatureChildren's literature, Indic (English)History and criticism.Indic fiction (English)Women authorsHistory and criticism.ChildrenBooks and readingGender identity820.9/92820954Superle Michelle1974-,1571512MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789532103321Contemporary English-language Indian children's literature3845983UNINA