Home Words: Discourses of Children's Literature in Canada

by Mavis Reimer

Book Overview

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children's literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554585740
• ISBN13: 9781554585748
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"