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Dutch literature --- Awards --- Dutch literature. --- Awards. --- LITTERATURE NEERLANDAISE --- BIBLIOGRAPHIE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes takes on the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. 'Why Fairy Tales Stick' introduces new critical approaches to the study of classical fairy tales such as "Cinderella," "Snow White, "Beauty and the Beast," and "Hansel and Gretel" in an effort to understand how and why fairy tales have evolved over the last three hundred years and remained so relevant in our lives. Why culture has favored certain fairy tales may not be simply a question of ideology-tales reinforcing a societal status quo-but also deeply related to issues of genetics, memetics, linguistics, and evolution. Just as we as a species have evolved, Zipes argues, so has the oral folk tale been transformed as literary fairy tale to assist us in surviving and adapting to our environment.

Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- sprookjes --- Fairy tales --- History and criticism. --- Psychological aspects. --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- jeugdliteratuur --- CONTES --- CONTES DE FEES --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ASPECT PSYCHOLOGIQUE

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"This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. In this conception, the insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power relations in recent children's novels reveals significant tensions, or even contradictions, with regards to the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children's literature in Britain is shown to have been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is seen as both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. The author examines the ways in which children's fictions have challenged dominant structures of power and imperial ideologies while sometimes straddling the border between subversion and an uneasy complicity. The texts analysed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, the author demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young. Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature combines a critical survey of contemporary British writing for children and young adults with the central concerns of postcolonial studies. It reveals complex engagements with questions of national identity, cultural hybridity, decolonization, and diasporic culture within contemporary British children's literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- postkolonialisme --- politiek --- jeugdliteratuur --- Roman anglais pour la jeunesse --- Roman anglais --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Histoire et critique. --- Children's stories, English --- Children's stories, English. --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- Histoires pour enfants anglaises --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- 1900-2099.

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Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Children's literature --- Littérature de jeunesse --- Children's literature. --- Littérature de jeunesse. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Juvenile literature

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Fiction --- German literature --- sprookjes --- anno 1900-1999 --- Fairy tales --- German fiction --- History and criticism. --- Roman allemand --- Contes de fées --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- jeugdliteratuur