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The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children’s and national literatures.

Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children’s literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children’s literature.

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Publié par	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date de parution	01 août 2009
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781554587728
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Home WORDS
Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada is a multidisciplinary series devoted to new perspectives on these subjects as they evolve. The series features studies that focus on the intersections of age, class, race, gender, and region as they contribute to a Canadian understanding of childhood and family, both historically and currently.
Series Editor
Cynthia Comacchio
Department of History
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Home WORDS
Discourses of Children s Literature in Canada
Mavis Reimer, editor
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Home words : discourses of children s literature in Canada/ Mavis Reimer [editor].
(Studies in childhood and family in Canada)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-55458-016-3
1. Home in literature. 2. Children s literature, Canadian-History and criticism. I. Reimer, Mavis, 1954- II. Series.
PS8069.H65 2008 C810.8 0355 C2007-903604-X
2008 Mavis Reimer
Cover design by David Drummond. Text design by P.J. Woodland.
Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this text, and to acknowledge all such indebtedness accurately. Any errors and omissions called to the publisher s attention will be corrected in future printings.

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CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION Discourses of Home in Canadian Children s Literature Mavis eimer
CHAPTER 1 Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological Work of Canadian Children s LiteratureMavis Reimer
CHAPTER 2 Les repr sentations du " home dans les romans historiques qu b cois estin s aux adolescents Danielle Thaler and Alain Jean-Bart
CHAPTER 3 Le home : un espace privil gi en litt rature de jeunesse qu b coise Anne Rusnak
CHAPTER 4 Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill s Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition Andrew O Malley
CHAPTER 5 Home and Native Land: A Study of Canadian Aboriginal Picture Books by Aboriginal Authors Doris Wolf and Paul DePasquale
CHAPTER 6 At Home on Native Land: A Non-Aboriginal Canadian Scholar Discusses Aboriginality and Property in Canadian Double-Focalized Novels for Young Adults Perry Nodelman
CHAPTER 7 White Picket Fences: At Home with Multicultural Children s Literature in Canada? Louise Saldanha
CHAPTER 8 Windows as Homing Devices in Canadian Picture Books Deborah Schnitzer
CHAPTER 9 The Homely Imaginary: Fantasies of Nationhood in Australian and Canadian Texts Clare Bradford
CHAPTER 10 Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People Margaret Mackey with James Nahachewsky and Janice Banser
AFTERWORD Homeward Bound? Neil Besner
WORKS CITED
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
LIST OF FIGURES
Figures 1-16 appear in a section that begins facing page 124.
FIGURE 1 From Jack Pine Fish Camp , text by Tina Umpherville, illus. Christie Rice
FIGURE 2 From Flour Sack Flora , text by Deborah Delaronde, illus. Gary Chartrand
FIGURE 3 From Willy the Curious Frog from Pruden s Bog , text by Grant Anderson, illus. Sheldon Dawson
FIGURE 4 From Willy the Curious Frog from Pruden s Bog , text by Grant Anderson, illus. Sheldon Dawson
FIGURE 5 From Molly, Sue and Someone New! , text and illus. by Atia Lokhat
FIGURE 6 From Crabs for Dinner , text by Adwoa Badoe, illus. Belinda Ageda
FIGURE 7 From Lights for Gita , text by Rachna Gilmore, illus. Alice Priestly
FIGURE 8 From Anne of Green Gables Souvenir Magazine , illus. Erik Dzenis
FIGURE 9 From A Screaming Kind of Day , text by Rachna Gilmore, illus. Gordon Sauv
FIGURE 10 From Mister Got to Go , text by Lois Simmie, illus. Cynthia Nugent
FIGURE 11 From Long Nellie , text and illus. by Deborah Turney-Zagw n
FIGURE 12 From The Missing Sun , text by Peter Eyvindson, illus. Rhian Brynjolson
FIGURE 13 From The Huron Carol , text by Father Jean de Br beuf, illus. Frances Tyrrell
FIGURE 14 From Lights for Gita , text by Rachna Gilmore, illus. Alice Priestly
FIGURE 15 From Flour Sack Flora , text by Deborah Delaronde, illus. Gary Chartrand
FIGURE 16 From Flour Sack Flora , text by Deborah Delaronde, illus. Gary Chartrand
FIGURE 17 A Non-hierarchical Model of Forms of Reading for Pleasure 202
FIGURE 18 A Modified Model of Reading Processes to Be Addressed in the Website 203
FIGURE 19 The Home Page: A Partial Site Map 211
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
RESEARCH FOR THE ESSAYS IN THIS COLLECTION and the consultations and meetings of the researchers were supported by a multi-year grant for collaborative research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through its Research Development Initiatives program. Additional funding came from the University of Winnipeg; Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta; the University of Victoria; Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia; and the Australasian Children s Literature Association for Research. This book, a major result of the research collaboration, has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.
Behind the authors of the various chapters in the book stands a group of able research assistants. Over the four years of our research, these included Kelly Burns, Charlotte Fortier, Sara Harms, Laura Jakal, Robbie Richardson, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Matt Reimer, Andrea Siemens, Andrew Reimer, Andrea Hutchinson, Maria Reimer, Charlie Peters, Sophie Walker, Janice Banser, and James Nahachewsky. We were helped in our work by office and administrative staff members in all our institutions. Special thanks are due to Rebecca Stillwell, of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, at the University of Winnipeg, and Sophia Sherman, in the office of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, for going well beyond the call of duty. We were aided in the preparation of this manuscript by the careful work of Jayne Hildebrand, Honours English student at the University of Winnipeg, and by the incomparable Sharlee Reimer, Research Coordinator in the Centre for Research in Young People s Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg, whose energy drove us through the last months and weeks of detailed work, checking, and rechecking required by such an undertaking.
Ongoing conversations with colleagues and administrators sustained many of us in our intellectual work. We thank, in particular, members of the Department of English and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Winnipeg. All of us were borne up, too, by the friends and families who are the wind beneath our wings.
The project was unique in the extent of the exchange of views and resources, reworking of drafts, and testing and challenging of ideas among the collaborators in what we called the Childplaces project, or, more simply, the Home project. This book is the result of the agreement of twelve people to work closely with one another over several years and is a testament to their passion, their patience, their tenacity, their sense of humour, and their goodwill.
INTRODUCTION Discourses of Home in Canadian Children s Literature
Mavis Reimer
Enter home as a search term in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary and your computer screen quickly fills with a long list of possible sites to visit. Printed out, the entry for the primary term yields more than thirty pages of definitions and examples of the word, as noun, adjective, verb, and adverb. This listing is followed by listings for more than seventy-five words, compounds, and phrases beginning with home : home-coming, home rule, home run, home truth, homework. The search engine for the dictionary doesn t easily allow a compilation of all the words and phrases that include home in another position, but even a cursory troll yields such intriguing entries as bring oneself home, an idiom for recouping financial losses, and go home, a euphemism for death. The many overlapping and sometimes contradictory meanings of the English word make it difficult to translate into French, as Danielle Thaler and Anne Rusnak remark in their chapters in this volume.
From the beginning of the multi-year project out of which this collection of essays developed, the collaborators agr