Reading for Resilience: Postcolonial Aesthetics in the Post-9/11 British Novel for the Young

Blanka Grzegorczyk

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Postcolonial Aesthetics in the Post-9/11 British Novel for the Young

于Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

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Page Range:: 238–252

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004464261_013

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This chapter explores the formal qualities and patterns of twenty-first-century postcolonial children’s fiction about terror. It engages with children’s literature as an instrument of social change that offers powerful imaginative interventions into the new world orders following 9/11 and 7/7. Throughout, the focus is on British writing for the young that has variously explored terrorism’s effects, and which is read as providing fruitful instances of an aesthetics that confronts and thinks beyond terror events and their global repercussions. While this chapter remains committed to a critical reading attentive to the contexts from which these texts emerge, it also argues that an analysis of the formal characteristics of postcolonial terror writing for the young gives us a renewed appreciation of the value of such texts to grassroots, youth-led resistance, and of the possibilities that reside in the literary response to periods of crisis. The chapter offers new readings of a range of children’s novelists of the period, including Sita Brahmachari, Elizabeth Laird, Bali Rai, Alan Gibbons, and Nikesh Shukla, and considers the ways in which their writing about different modes of terror can convey both the experience of trauma and moments of resilience and recovery. These texts transport young people across different worlds, whether national, cultural, or cognitive, while constantly encouraging some critical reckoning in them as readers and travellers.

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Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

丛编： Youth in a Globalizing World, 卷： 15

ISBN:: 9789004464261

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 26 Jun 2021

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