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Author Richter, Miriam Verena.

Title Creating the National Mosaic : Multiculturalism in Canadian Children's Literature from 1950 to 1994.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (374 pages).
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Series Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 133
Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; 133.
Summary The Canadian Multicultural Mosaic has long been recognized as an - if not the - outstanding characteristic of the Canadian nation at home and abroad. It has, further, come to be regarded as a model worldwide of a well-functioning culturally diverse society. This first book-length study of Canadian multicultural children's literature sets out to explore how literature for the young has contributed to the creation of the country's multicultural discourse as well as to the construction of its national identity. In this context, children's literature possesses particular significance, as juvenile.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-334) and index.
Contents Cover; Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Introduction; 1 National Identity-Formation; 1 National Identity-Formation; 2 The Canadian Situation; 2 The Canadian Situation; 3 Canadian Cultural Policy with Regard to Children's Culture and Literature; 3 Canadian Cultural Policy with Regard to Children's Culture and Literature; 4 The Immigrant Experience as Depicted in Anglo-Canadian Youth Fiction 1950-1994.
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Subject Children's literature, Canadian.
Children's literature, Canadian.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Richter, Miriam Verena. Creating the National Mosaic : Multiculturalism in Canadian Children's Literature from 1950 to 1994. Amsterdam : Rodopi, ©2011 9789042033511
ISBN 9789401200509
9401200505
9789042033511
9042033517