Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T14:24:28.074Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Goodbye, Ghetto: Further Comparative Approaches to Children's Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Kiera Vaclavik
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In 2005 Emer O'Sullivan published the most comprehensive outline to date of a comparative approach to the study of literature and other cultural productions for the young. She presents nine constituent areas of comparative study in relation to children's literature (theory of children's literature, contact and transfer studies, comparative poetics, intertextuality studies, intermediality studies, image studies, comparative genre studies, comparative historiography of children's literature, comparative history of children's literature studies), which she illustrates with examples from around the world. But, although extensive, O'Sullivan's proposal is not without its blind spots, and she acknowledges that it “can only be enhanced by future discussion and modification” (12). With the aim of bolstering the field of children's literature, I here propose an area of comparative research overlooked by O'Sullivan. I also suggest extensions to her conception of comparative literature and to her handling of reception or reader response.

Type
Theories and Methodologies
Information
PMLA , Volume 126 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 203 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Works Cited

Assouline, Pierre. Hergé: Biographie. Paris: Plon, 1996. Print.Google Scholar
Bharat, Meenakshi. The Ultimate Colony: The Child in Postcolonial Fiction. New Delhi: Allied, 2003. Print.Google Scholar
Boldrini, Lucia. “Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century: A View from Europe.” Comparative Critical Studies 3.1 (2006): 13–23. Print.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Borgomano, Madeleine, ed. Être enfant en Afrique. Spec. issue of Mots pluriels 22 (2002): n. pag. Web. 2 Nov. 2010.Google Scholar
Brown, Penny. “Teaching Children's Literature as a Comparative Literary Subject in a British University.” Signal: Approaches to Children's Books 99.3 (2002): 189–99. Print.Google Scholar
Carroll, Lewis. The Annotated Alice. Ed. Gardner, Martin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. Print.Google Scholar
El Maïzi, Myriem, ed. Children and Childhood in Francophone Literature. Spec. issue of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 7.2 (2009): 1–96. Print.Google Scholar
Fénelon, François de. Les aventures de Télémaque. Ed. Goré, Jeanne-Lydie. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1968. Print.Google Scholar
Genette, Gérard. Palimpsestes: La littérature au second degré. Paris: Seuil, 1982. Print.Google Scholar
Genlis, Stéphanie de. Alphonse et Dalinde, ou la féerie de l'art et de la nature, conte moral. Orléans: Berthevin, 1797–98. Print.Google Scholar
Haggard, Henry Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Ed. Butts, Dennis. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. Print.Google Scholar
Hayley, William. The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem in Six Cantos. London: Dodsley, 1781. Print.Google Scholar
Hunt, Peter. ‘“Children's Literature’: An Historical/Political/Theoretical Overview.” New Comparison 20 (1995): 6–13. Print.Google Scholar
Khorana, Meena, ed. Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children's and Young Adult Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 1998. Print.Google Scholar
Koster, Serge. Michel Tournier. Paris: Veyrier, 1986. Print.Google Scholar
La Sale, Antoine de. Le paradis de la reine Sibylle. Trans. Francine Mora-Lebrun. Paris: Stock, 1983. Print.Google Scholar
MacDonald, George. The Golden Key. London: Bodley Head, 1967. Print.Google Scholar
MacDonald, George. The Princess and the Goblin. London: Puffin, 1996. Print.Google Scholar
Malot, Hector. Sans famille. 2 vols. Paris: Gallimard, 1997. Print.Google Scholar
McGillis, Roderick, ed. Voices of the Other: Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context. New York: Garland, 1999. Print.Google Scholar
O'Sullivan, Emer. Comparative Children's Literature. Abingdon: Routledge, 2005. Print.Google Scholar
Perrot, Jean. Art baroque, art d'enfance. Nancy: PU de Nancy, 1991. Print.Google Scholar
Phillips, Richard. Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure. London: Routledge, 1997. Print.Google Scholar
Pullman, Philip. The Amber Spyglass. London: Point, 2001. Print.Google Scholar
Rabinovitch, Dina. “His Bright Materials.” Guardian 10 Dec. 2003: 14–15. Print.Google Scholar
Sand, George. “La fée Poussière.” Contes d'une grandmère. Ed. Didier, Béatrice. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 394–405. Print.Google Scholar
Sharrad, Paul. “Memory, Childhood and Exile: Self-Representation in Post-colonial Writing.” World Englishes 9.2 (1990): 137–53. Print.Google Scholar
Thacker, Deborah Cogan. Introduction. Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism. Ed. Thacker, and Webb, Jean. London: Routledge, 2002. 1–12. Print.Google Scholar
Thompson, Harry. Tintin: Hergé and His Creation. London: Hodder, 1991. Print.Google Scholar
Tlunc, Cinvert de. “Michel Tournier et l'enfance.” Le taxi lune 1 (1980): 2–13. Print.Google Scholar
Tournier, Michel. Vendredi ou la vie sauvage. Paris: Gallimard, 1997. Print.Google Scholar
Verne, Jules. Voyage au centre de la terre. Ed. Goldenstein, Jean-Pierre. Paris: Pocket, 1991. Print.Google Scholar
Webb, Jean. “Text, Culture, and Postcolonial Children's Literature: A Comparative Perspective.” Voices of the Other: Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context. Ed. McGillis, Roderick. New York: Garland, 1999. 71–88. Print.Google Scholar