The Image of the Prairies in Contemporary Canadian Juvenile Fiction

Dave Jenkinson

doi:10.1353/chq.0.0788

The Image of the Prairies in Contemporary Canadian Juvenile Fiction

Children s Literature Association Quarterly ◽

10.1353/chq.0.0788 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 201-205

Author(s):

Dave Jenkinson

Keyword(s):

Juvenile Fiction

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Juvenile Fiction

10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0017 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mavis Reimer ◽

Clare Bradford ◽

Heather Snell

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

British Literature ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽

Juvenile Fiction

This chapter focuses on the juvenile fiction of the British settler colonies to 1950, and considers how writers both take up forms familiar to them from British literature and revise these forms in the attempt to account for the specific geography, politics, and cultures of their places. It is during this time that the heroics associated with building the empire had taken hold of British cultural and literary imaginations. Repeatedly, the juvenile fiction of settler colonies returns to the question of the relations between settlers and Indigenous inhabitants—sometimes respecting the power of Indigenous knowledge and traditions; often expressing the conviction of natural British superiority to Indigenous ways of knowing and living; always revealing, whether overtly or covertly, the haunting of the stories of settler cultures by the displacement of Indigenous peoples on whose land those cultures are founded.

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Building the Spanish Juvenile Fiction Collection at the University of Alberta’s HT Coutts Education Library

The Deakin Review of Children s Literature ◽

10.20361/g2xg8w ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Denis Lacroix

Keyword(s):

Children's Literature ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

Spanish Language ◽

University Of Alberta ◽

Collection Selection ◽

Practical Information ◽

Juvenile Fiction ◽

The University

This article describes why and how the University of Alberta Libraries built a Spanish language children’s literature collection. Selection criteria, findability, visibility, and assessment are addressed in the context of this collection. Practical information is provided to help librarians build similar collections and promote them.

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