Imagining Sameness and Difference in Children's Literature - (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature) by Emer O'Sullivan & Andrea Immel
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This new interdisciplinary collection spanning anthropology, image studies, literary criticism, psychology and history explores the ways in which children's books were important vehicles for the expression of national identities, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, right up until the present day.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children's literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood. The chapters address different models of presenting foreigners using examples from children's educational prints, dramatic performances, travel narratives, comics, and picture books. Contributors illuminate the ways in which the texts negotiate the tensions between the Enlightenment ideal of internationalism and discrete national or ethnic identities cultivated since the Romantic era, providing examples of ethnocentric cultural perspectives and of cultural relativism, as well as instances where discussions of child reader agency indicate how they might participate eventually in a tolerant transnational community. </p> <p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This book opens the way for a welcome transformation of our understanding of the dynamics and representation of cultural difference by the field of aesthetics." (Blanka Grzegorczyk, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 13 (2), December, 2020)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Emer O'Sullivan</b> is Professor of English Literature at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. She is the author of <i>Kinderliterarische Komparatistik</i>, which won the biennial IRSCL Award for outstanding research and <i>Comparative Children's Literature</i>, which won the Children's Literature Association 2007 Book Award, among others.</p><p><b>Andrea Immel</b> is Curator of the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University, USA. She has co-edited four collections of essays including <i>Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe</i> and <i>The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature</i>. Her scholarly facsimile edition of <i>Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book</i> won the Justin G. Schiller Prize.</p>
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