File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1999/postcolonial.9902, message 171


Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:11:34 -0500
From: Ed Wiltse <ecwiltse-AT-naz.edu>
Subject: Re: Children's Lit and PoCo


On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 servetus-AT-iname.com wrote:

> Can anyone suggest some texts which engage Western children's lit from 
>a PoCo perspective?  i've got Ariel Dorfman's "The Empire's Old Clothes"
>but i'm wondering if there are others.  (Specifically: i'm 
>doing a PoCo reading of Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax").  

Jacqueline Rose's _The Case of Peter Pan..._ (U Penn P, '92), talks about
imperialism and children's fiction a bit, and of course there's Martin
Green's old chestnut _Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire_.  I also have
a diss chapter partly addressing Peter Pan and imperialism from a more
explicitly postcolonial perspective than either of those books, which
you're welcome to read if you want it (e-mail me off list).  As a parent
of a 3 year old I'm constantly encountering kiddie lit in desperate need
of postcolonial analysis (checked out the Curious George books lately?). 
Glad to hear you're working on this. 

Ed

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