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In this pioneering and timely book, Lampert examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children's literature about the attacks of September 11, 2001. Looking at examples including picture books, young adult novels, and a selection of DC Comics, Lampert finds the co-mingling of xenophobia and tolerance, the binaried competition between good and evil and global harmony and national insularity, and the glorification of both the commonplace hero and the super-human. Specifically, Lampert identifies three significant identity categories encoded in 9/11 books for children--ethnic identities, national identities, and heroic identities--arguing that their formation is contingent upon post-9/11 politics. These shifting identities offer implicit and explicit accounts of what constitute good citizenship, loyalty to nation and community, and desirable attributes in a Western post-9/11 context.
Lampert makes an original contribution to the field of children's literature by providing a focused and sustained analysis of how texts for children about 9/11 contribute to formations of identity in these complex times of cultural unease and global unrest.
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One would expect this volume to be important for those interested generally in representations of 9/11 and especially in the ways children's literature has dealt with that event. Unfortunately, the study reads like a dissertation, complete with a bibliographic survey, chapter summaries, and the standard justification for taking up the topic to begin with. In pursuit of her aim to pinpoint the identity politics that play out in children's literature about 9/11, Lampert (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia) steeps the book in postmodern theory, providing chapters on ethnic, national, and what she calls "heroic" identities. Examining the ways identity was and is culturally constructed and performed for children after 9/11, she takes in a wide range of children's literature from a variety of countries, from picture books to young adult literature, but acknowledges early on the necessary "American-centricity" of these books and her own study. However, because of its topic, the book is relevant and important--even though hampered in places by its defensive tone, Lampert's need to prove her bona fides, and repetitiveness. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above. E. K. Rosen Muhlenberg College
目录
1 Introduction: ChildrenG++s literature and its Cultural Influence |
2 New Identities Post September 11: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Heroic Subject |
3 Ethnic Identities: Picture Books and Young Adult Fiction about September 11 |
4 National Identities: Picture Books and Young Adult Fiction about September 11 |
5 Heroic Identities: Picture Books and Comics about September 11 |
6 Conclusion |