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Re-visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers: The Past through Modern Eyes

Re-visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers: The Past through Modern Eyes

Wilson, Kim

Hardcover

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0415890071
ISBN13: 9780415890076
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 15 2011
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.

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