Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade
New Paradigms for Young Readers
Published on 1. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-80207-688-2 (ISBN)
Description
Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade examines modern and contemporary Robinsonade texts written for young readers, looking specifically at the ways in which later adaptations of the Robinson Crusoe story subvert both traditional narrative structures and particular ideological codes within the genre. This collection redresses both the gender and geopolitical biases that have characterized most writings within the Robinsonade genre since its inception, and includes chapters on little-known works of fiction by female authors, as well as works from outside the mainstream of Anglo-American culture.
Reviews / Votes
'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 QuarterlyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80207-688-2 (9781802076882)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ian Kinane is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton.
Content
Foreword: The Progressive Pedagogies of the Modern Robinsonade - Andrew O'Malley
Introduction: The Robinsonade Genre and the Didactic Impulse: A Reassessment - Ian Kinane
1. 'What a Crusoe crowd we shall make!': Destabilizing Imperialist Attitudes to Space in G. Warren Payne's Three Boys in Antarctica - Sinead Moriarty
2. Borrowing (from) Crusoe: Library Books and Identity Formation in the Irish Free State - Mairead Mooney and Cliona O Gallchoir
3. Navigating Nationhood, Gender, and the Robinsonade in The Dreams of Myfanwy - Siwan M. Rosser
4. Call it Courage and the Survival of the Imperial Robinsonade - Clive Barnes
5. Shifting Perspectives in Two Mid-Twentieth Century Robinsonades - Ian Kinane
6. Between Communitas and Pantheism: Terry Pratchett's Nation as a Post-Christian Robinsonade for a Post-Colonial World - Anja Hoeing
7. Romance, the Robinsonade, and the Cultivation of Adolescent Female Desire in Libba Bray's Beauty Queens - Amy Hicks
Introduction: The Robinsonade Genre and the Didactic Impulse: A Reassessment - Ian Kinane
1. 'What a Crusoe crowd we shall make!': Destabilizing Imperialist Attitudes to Space in G. Warren Payne's Three Boys in Antarctica - Sinead Moriarty
2. Borrowing (from) Crusoe: Library Books and Identity Formation in the Irish Free State - Mairead Mooney and Cliona O Gallchoir
3. Navigating Nationhood, Gender, and the Robinsonade in The Dreams of Myfanwy - Siwan M. Rosser
4. Call it Courage and the Survival of the Imperial Robinsonade - Clive Barnes
5. Shifting Perspectives in Two Mid-Twentieth Century Robinsonades - Ian Kinane
6. Between Communitas and Pantheism: Terry Pratchett's Nation as a Post-Christian Robinsonade for a Post-Colonial World - Anja Hoeing
7. Romance, the Robinsonade, and the Cultivation of Adolescent Female Desire in Libba Bray's Beauty Queens - Amy Hicks