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- Title
Alienated childhood: a comparison between childhood represented in English and Chinese children's literature of the late 20<sup>th</sup> century.
- Authors
Xia Zhao
- Abstract
The years between the 1970s and 1990s saw a change in childhood representation in both English and Chinese children's literature, which attached much more importance to the physical, psychological and even social independence and dignity of the term childhood, and to the particular individual called child. The conception of "alienated childhood" - in the meaning of childhood alienated from adulthood in children's literature - is here explored in the light of social, cultural and literary transformations which characterised the birth of the late twentieth century new literature for children. The comparative approach to contemporary English and Chinese literature shows similarities as well as differences reflecting this changing representation and its relationship with different ideological content concerning childhood in these two cultures.
- Subjects
CHINA; UNITED States; UNITED Kingdom; COMPARATIVE studies; CHILDREN'S literature; CHILDREN in literature; CHINESE children's literature; AMERICAN children's literature; ENGLISH children's literature; CHINESE civilization, 1976-2002; UNITED States civilization; BRITISH civilization
- Publication
History of Education & Children's Literature, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1971-1093
- Publication type
Article