Australian Not by Blood, but by Character: Soldiers and Refugees in Australian Children’s Picture Books
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Australian Not by Blood, but by Character: Soldiers and Refugees in Australian Children’s Picture Books |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2865 |
Book Title | The Palgrave handbook of artistic and cultural responses to war since 1914: the British Isles, the United States and Australasia |
Authors | Kerby, Martin (Author), Baguley, Margaret (Author), Lowien, Nathan (Author) and Ayre, Kay (Author) |
Editors | Kerby, Martin, Baguley, Margaret and McDonald, Janet |
Page Range | 309-326 |
Chapter Number | 18 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
ISBN | 9783319969855 |
9783319969862 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_18 |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_18 |
Abstract | In recent years, Australian children’s picture books dealing with the First World War have balanced the increasingly sentimentalized construct of the Australian soldier as a victim of trauma and the traditional use of Australian war literature as a means of exploring national identity. It is an approach that has proved quite malleable, for variations of it have been used in children’s picture books dealing with the far more polemic issue of refugees. By drawing on this framework authors and illustrators position refugees as victims of trauma who have displayed qualities that are entirely consistent with a construct of national identity grounded in martial achievement. Readers of these texts are encouraged to welcome these arrivals at a literal level as new citizens and symbolically as new inductees into a pervasive construct of national identity. |
Keywords | Australia, First World War, national identity, children's picture books, picture books, literature, refugees |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430302. Australian history |
360699. Visual arts not elsewhere classified | |
390101. Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood |
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4zy9/australian-not-by-blood-but-by-character-soldiers-and-refugees-in-australian-children-s-picture-books
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