Discourses of home and homeland in Irish children's fiction 1990-2012 : writing home /: writing home. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ciara Ní Bhroin.
• Authors: Ní Bhroin, Ciara
• Contents: CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 Home Childhood and Children's Literature Changing Concepts of Home Home, Homeland and Childhood Irish Children's Fiction: Home, Homeland and Decolonization 3 Recovery of Origins: Myths of Homeland and Return in the Fantasy Fiction of O.R. Melling Nostalgia and Essentialism Mother Ireland and the Female Returnee Unity and Duality The Viability of Ireland as Home 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 Positioning Thompson in an Irish Literary Tradition A Place Called Home Tradition, Modernity and the Unhomely Mother, Home and Male Subjectivity 5 Internationalization or Globalization? Myth Technology and Mobility in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl Series Globalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism Technology and Power Mobility and Privilege Home, Boundedness and Surveillance 6 Inclusions and Exclusions: Debunking Myths of Home and Homelessness in the Fiction of Siobhán Parkinson Re-visioning the Past Debunking the Myth of the West as Home Voices from the Edge Sameness and Difference 7 Unhomely Secrets in the Work of Siobhan Dowd Transgressive Females, Home and the Close-Knit Community Borders, Partition and Male Subjectivity Myths of Mother(land) and Return Secrets, Revelations and the Possibility of Home 8: Conclusion Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823.01089282; Children's stories, Irish -- History and criticism; Home in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030733957
• Related ISBNs: 9783030733940
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