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- Title: Home Away from Home: One US Reader's Response to Home Words (Critical Essay)
- Author : Texts, Cultures Jeunesse: Young People
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 238 KB
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Home Words: Discourses of Children's Literature in Canada, edited by Mavis Reimer, offers ten essays, each of which approaches the idea of "home" through a different critical lens. From Andrew O'Malley's examination of how Robinsonade narratives enact domesticity as colonization, to Louise Saldanha's thesis that Canadian multiculturalism offers more a strategy for managing difference than a genuine commitment to cultural pluralism, these chapters offer careful consideration of how and whom "home" includes and excludes. Taken collectively, they enact the sociolinguistic mapping of Raymond Williams's Keywords--on which the title of Home Words productively puns, and to which Reimer acknowledges her debt. As she notes in her introduction, "the multivalency of the concept of home means that senses can be separated from one another and opposed, as well as conflated with one another" (xv). In exploring these variant and conflicted meanings of "home," she chooses, wisely, to make the project "an untidy, rather than a finished, one" (xii), thereby inviting readers to continue the conversation. Embracing the spirit of the book, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures asked that I evaluate the ideas in Home Words "in relation to other primary or secondary texts that are part of [my] current research," considering "how readily these discourses of home in Canadian texts for young people can be applied to texts published elsewhere," such as "American texts" (Lefebvre). Given my embarrassingly inadequate knowledge of Canadian children's literature, I welcomed the opportunity to acquaint myself with (at least) some of the scholarship and to bring the book's ideas to bear on texts more familiar to me--specifically, on the American children's picture books that I study and teach.