Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade

Ian Kinane is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton.

• Foreword: The Progressive Pedagogies of the Modern Robinsonade - Andrew O’MalleyIntroduction: The Robinsonade Genre and the Didactic Impulse: A Reassessment - Ian Kinane1. ‘What a Crusoe crowd we shall make!’: Destabilizing Imperialist Attitudes to Space in G. Warren Payne’s Three Boys in Antarctica - Sinead Moriarty2. Borrowing (from) Crusoe: Library Books and Identity Formation in the Irish Free State - Mairéad Mooney and Clíona Ó Gallchoir3. Navigating Nationhood, Gender, and the Robinsonade in The Dreams of Myfanwy - Siwan M. Rosser4. Call it Courage and the Survival of the Imperial Robinsonade - Clive Barnes5. Shifting Perspectives in Two Mid-Twentieth Century Robinsonades - Ian Kinane6. Between Communitas and Pantheism: Terry Pratchett’s Nation as a Post-Christian Robinsonade for a Post-Colonial World - Anja Höing7. Romance, the Robinsonade, and the Cultivation of Adolescent Female Desire in Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens - Amy Hicks

'Ian Kinane discerns the beginnings of a post-colonial didactics entering the Robinsonade […] Kinane is marking a significant shift away from the Euro-centric Robinsonade’s allegiance to the colonialist ideology that undergrided the genre for two centuries. […] The young reader, viewing the world through Karana or Friday’s eyes, perceives the perversions and injustices of imperial power.' Susan Naramore Maher, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly