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Reading and Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960 de Kimberley Reynolds

Reading and Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960

Editat de Kimberley Reynolds, Jane Rosen, Michael Rosen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2018

Cum putem să le oferim copiilor noștri o perspectivă istorică asupra valorilor de dreptate socială și egalitate prin intermediul lecturii? Reading and Rebellion oferă un răspuns documentat și fascinant, fiind o antologie care aduce la lumină scrieri radicale destinate celor mici din perioada 1900-1960. Într-o epocă în care literatura pentru copii era văzută ca un instrument esențial pentru formarea viitoarei societăți, mulți autori britanici au creat texte care încurajau gândirea critică și activismul, de la simple abecedare până la romane complexe.

Putem afirma că acest volum nu este doar o colecție de texte, ci o arhivă vizuală și culturală, îmbogățită cu peste 200 de ilustrații alb-negru care redau spiritul progresist al primei jumătăți de secol XX. Cei care au apreciat Tales for Little Rebels de Julia L. Mickenberg vor găsi aici aceeași dorință de a contesta autoritatea și de a promova solidaritatea, însă aplicată specific contextului britanic. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări ale autoarei Kimberley Reynolds, cum ar fi Children's Literature, care oferă o privire de ansamblu teoretică, Reading and Rebellion acționează ca o piesă de rezistență ce demonstrează cum literatura poate fi un motor al schimbării sociale.

Recomandăm această antologie pentru profunzimea cu care tratează subiecte adesea ignorate în istoriile literare standard. Ritmul este unul de explorare, oferind cititorului adult șansa de a descoperi rarități editoriale, în timp ce tinerii cititori pot înțelege rădăcinile unor idei precum pacea globală sau echitatea, prezentate într-un format accesibil și captivant.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198806189
ISBN-10: 0198806183
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: Over 200 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 196 x 254 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.25 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să cultive spiritul civic și simțul dreptății în rândul copiilor mai mari (12+ ani), dar și educatorilor interesați de istoria educației. Cititorul câștigă acces la o moștenire literară rară, care demonstrează că lectura a fost mereu o formă de rezistență și un mod de a visa la o lume mai bună, oferind modele de curaj și gândire independentă.

Despre autor

Kimberley Reynolds este profesoară de literatură engleză și studii de gen la Roehampton Institute of Higher Education. Expertiza sa vastă în literatura pentru copii este reflectată în numeroasele sale lucrări academice și antologii. Prin cercetările sale, Reynolds a devenit o voce autoritară în recuperarea istoriilor uitate ale publicațiilor pentru tineret, concentrându-se pe modul în care literatura reflectă și influențează schimbările socio-politice. Munca sa editorială, alături de Jane Rosen și cunoscutul autor Michael Rosen, transformă documentarea istorică într-o experiență narativă relevantă pentru publicul contemporan.

Descriere

Kim Reynolds, Jane Rosen, and Michael Rosen present a new anthology of radical writings for children from the first half of the twentieth century. In the years 1900 to 1960, large sections of the British population embraced a spectrum of left-wing positions with a view to maintaining peace and creating a more just, less class riven, more planned, and more enjoyable society for all. Children's books and periodicals were a central part of radical activity since theyoung were expected not just to inherit but also to help make this new society, and reading was regarded as the most direct way of helping them acquire the skills for this task. From alphabets through picture books, periodicals, information books, plays, song-books, pamphlets, and novels, many works ofchildren's literature leaned left, but with the possible exception of references to Geoffrey Trease's Bows Against the Barons (1934), a Marxist retelling of the Robin Hood story, it is almost impossible to realise this from standard accounts of this period. This anthology contains a wide selection of the kinds of materials that left-wing and progressive parents would have wanted their children to read and which children understood as part of their initiation into a politically radicalclass.

Recenzii

This anthology is a joy to read. Its richness and variety reminds me of Inside the Rainbow (Redstone Press, 2013), the astonishing collection of Russian children's illustrations from 1920-1935, but whereas that focused on one country and one short period of time, Reading and Rebellion casts its net wider in both time and space. The familiar (to me, at least: Im not sure how much Geoffrey Trease is read these days) and the (to me, at least)completely unknown, such as Micky Mongrel, the class conscious dog, a cartoon from the Daily Worker, sit happily side by side with stories, advice, history, information, moral homilies, fairy tales, and every conceivable kind of writing from a left-wing perspective. Given the stultifyingly conservative narrowness of the vastmajority of the children's literature that's all most of us know, this is a fresh wind, and I enjoyed it enormously.
Doing Reading and Rebellion justice in a thousand words is impossible...s, I was deeply impressed by Reading and Rebellion and learned a great deal from it. The book will surely endure as an indispensable reference for anyone interested in radical political cultures and childhood in the UK and beyond. And if we are lucky it will inspire even more collections of radical children's literature from other parts of the world.
For a very modest £25 you get a huge amount of material: over 150 pages of history and commentary on a seriously neglected period, which alone would make the book worthwhile ... An impressive project, very well done. Buy it. You won't be disappointed.
The perfect read for a New Year and a new generation who more than anyone else will help ensure a future where peace and goodwill is more than a seasonal marketing gimmick but instead at the core of human existence.

Notă biografică

Kimberley Reynolds is the Professor of Children's Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK. She has served on the boards of a number of national and international organisations, is a Past President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature, and was the first Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of WesternAustralia. She has lectured and published widely on a variety of aspects of children's literature. Her monograph, Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations (2007) received the Children's Book Award for 2009. In 2013 she received the International Brothers Grimm Awardfor scholarly contributions to the field of children's literature studies.Jane Rosen is a Librarian who works in Special Libraries. She is currently employed in a national museum. Her research interests include radical and working-class children's literature and education, and she has presented papers on the subject at several international conferences. She has also published reviews and articles in a variety of publications including an essay on The Young Socialist in Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children's Literature(2014).Michael Rosen is the Professor of Children's Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been teaching children's literature on MA courses since 1993 at University of North London/London Metropolitan University and Birkbeck, prior to his tenure at Goldsmiths. Since 1974 he has published over 150 books for children (poetry, picture book texts, fiction, non-fiction), including We're Going on a Bear Hunt (illustrated by Helen Oxenbury), The Sad Book (illustrated byQuentin Blake), and Quick Let's Get Out of Here (illustrated by Quentin Blake). His books for adults include Alphabetical, how every letter tells a story (John Murray) and The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case (Faber and Faber). He has been broadcasting on BBC World Service and Radio 4and 3 since 1987, and hosts BBC Radio 4's 'Word of Mouth'. He writes a monthly column in Guardian Education, a column in the New Humanist, and is poet-in-residence on 'The Teacher'.