Voices of the Other

Roderick McGillis is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Calgary, Canada.

• General Editor’s Forward Preface Contributors Introduction Roderick McGillis Section I: Theory 1. Rethinking the Identity of Cultural Otherness: The Discourse of Difference as an Unfinished Project Shaobo Xie 2. "We are the world, we are the children": The Semiotics of Seduction in International Children’s Relief Efforts Nancy Ellen Batty 3. The View from the Center: British Empire and Post-Empire Children’s Literature Peter Hunt and Karen Sands 4. Continuity, Fissure, or Dysfunction: From Settler Society to Multicultural Society in Australian Fiction John Stephens 5. Text, Culture, and Postcolonial Children’s Literature: A Comparative Perspective Jean Webb Section II: Colonialism 6. Saved by the World: Textuality and Colonization Nineteenth-Century Texts for Children Clare Bradford 7. Making Princesses, Remaking A Little Princess Mavis Reimer 8. Colonial Canada’s Young Adult Short Adventure Fiction: The Hunting Tale Jean Stringam 9. Lies my Children’s Books Taught me: History Meets Popular Culture in "The American Girls" Books Daniel Hade Section III: Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism 10. Bedtime Stories: Canadian Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature Louise Saldanha 11. Multiculturalism in Canadian Children’s Books: The Embarrassments of History Dieter Petzold 12. "Initiation for the Nation": Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Writing for Children Oliver Lovesey 13. Wrestling with the Past: The Young Adult Novels of Buchi Emecheta Alida Allison 14. "And the Celt Knew the Indian": Knowingness, Postcolonialism, Children’s Literature Roderick McGillis 15. Reviving or Revising Helen Bannerman’s The Story of Little Black Sambo: Postcolonial Hero or Signifying Monkey" Jan Susina Afterword: The Merits and Demerits of the Postcolonial Approach to Writings in English Victor J. Ramraj Index