Ciara Ní Bhroin is a founding member and former president of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature. She lectured for many years in English language, literacy and literature at the Marino Institute of Education, an associated college of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She has published a range of articles and book chapters on children's literature and is co-editor of What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children's Literature (2012).
CONTENTS
1 Introduction
2 Home Childhood and Children's Literature
Changing Concepts of Home
Home, Homeland and Childhood
Irish Children's Fiction: Home, Homeland and Decolonization
3 Recovery of Origins: Myths of Homeland and Return in the Fantasy Fiction of O.R. Melling
Nostalgia and Essentialism
Mother Ireland and the Female Returnee
Unity and Duality
The Viability of Ireland as Home
4 Continuity and Change: The Tradition / Modernity Dialectic in the Construction of Home in Kate Thompson's The New Policeman and Creature of the Night
Positioning Thompson in an Irish Literary Tradition
Tradition, Modernity and the Unhomely
5 Internationalization or Globalization? Myth Technology and Mobility in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl Series
Globalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Technology and Power
Mobility and Privilege
Home, Boundedness and Surveillance
6 Inclusions and Exclusions: Debunking Myths of Home and Homelessness in the Fiction of Siobhán Parkinson
Re-visioning the Past
Debunking the Myth of the West as Home
Voices from the Edge
Sameness and Difference
7 Unhomely Secrets in the Work of Siobhan Dowd
Transgressive Females, Home and the Close-Knit Community
Borders, Partition and Male Subjectivity
Myths of Mother(land) and Return
Secrets, Revelations and the Possibility of Home
8: Conclusion
Index