LEADER 04672nam 22007215 450 001 9910483644603321 005 20230810172842.0 010 $a3-030-73395-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-73395-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011946540 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6629010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6629010 035 $a(OCoLC)1257077514 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-73395-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011946540 100 $a20210522d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDiscourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children?s Fiction 1990-2012 $eWriting Home /$fby Ciara Ní Bhroin 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (254 pages) 225 1 $aCritical Approaches to Children's Literature,$x2753-0833 311 $a3-030-73394-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Home Childhood and Children?s Literature -- Chapter 3: Recovery of Origins: Myths of Homeland and Return in the Fantasy Fiction of O.R. Melling -- Chapter 4: Continuity and Change: The Tradition / Modernity Dialectic in the Construction of Home in Kate Thompson?s The New Policeman and Creature of the Night -- Chapter 5: Internationalization or Globalization? Myth Technology and Mobility in Eoin Colfer?s Artemis Fowl Series -- Chapter 6: Inclusions and Exclusions: Debunking Myths of Home and Homelessness in the Fiction of Siobhán Parkinson -- Chapter 7: Unhomely Secrets in the Work of Siobhan Dowd -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. 330 $aIn the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in Irish children?s fiction from 1990 to 2012, a time of dramatic change in Ireland spanning the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger and of unprecedented growth in Irish children?s literature. Close readings of selected texts by five award-winning authors are linked to social, intellectual and political changes in the period covered and draw on postcolonial, feminist, cultural and children?s literature theory, highlighting the political and ideological dimensions of home and the value of children?s literature as a lens through which to view culture and society as well as an imaginative space where young people can engage with complex ideas relevant to their lives and the world in which they live. Examining the works of O. R. Melling, Kate Thompson, Eoin Colfer, Siobhán Parkinson and Siobhan Dowd, Ciara Ní Bhroin argues that Irish children?s literature changed at this time from being a vehicle that largely promoted hegemonic ideologies of home in post-independence Ireland to a site of resistance to complacent notions of home in Celtic Tiger Ireland. Ciara Ní Bhroin is a founding member and former president of the Irish Society for the Study of Children?s Literature. She lectured for many years in English language, literacy and literature at the Marino Institute of Education, an associated college of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She has published a range of articles and book chapters on children?s literature and is co-editor of What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children?s Literature (2012). 410 0$aCritical Approaches to Children's Literature,$x2753-0833 606 $aChildren's literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aLiterature 606 $aFilm genres 606 $aChildren's Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aLiterary Region or Country 606 $aGenre Studies 615 0$aChildren's literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aFilm genres. 615 14$aChildren's Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Region or Country. 615 24$aGenre Studies. 676 $a820.9928209417 676 $a823.01089282 700 $aBhroin$b Ciara Ni?$01076086 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483644603321 996 $aDiscourses of home and homeland in Irish children's fiction 1990-2012$92586190 997 $aUNINA