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POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN - EDU32PLC

This subject studies the emergence of a range of writing and reading positions and diverse 'hybrid' and re-worked genres in recent children's literature in response to various post-colonial experiences and contexts. These positions include interpretations from the perspectives of indigenous and European authors, as well as diasporic and subaltern viewpoints.

La Trobe University Course Handbook entry - for this subject
Children's Literature bibliographies - browse these for critical and analytical texts
Heyward Library Subject Guide - portal to useful websites in Children's Literature

READING LIST FOR 2007
Set texts
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Little Black Sambo – Helen Bannerman
My Girragundji – Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor
Children of Mirrabooka – Judith Arthy
Deadly, Unna? – Philip Gwynne
My Place – Nadia Wheatley
China Coin – Allan Baillie
Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
Bone Dance - Martha Brooks
The Beat of the Drum – Martin Waddell

Supplementary texts
Sam and the Tigers – Julius Lester
The Story of Little Babaji – Helen Bannerman/Fred Marcellino
Tucker – Ian Abdullah
Do not go around the edges – Daisy Utemorrah
Burnt stick – Anthony Hill
Drover’s boy – Ted Egan
Sally’s Story – Sally Morgan
The Fat and Juicy Place – Dianne Kidd
Ernie dances to the didgeridoo – Alison Lester
The Rabbits – John Marsden/Shaun Tan
My Plunkett’s pool – Gillian Rubinstein/Terry Denton
Speak Chinese Fang Fang - Sally Rippin
Fang Fang’s Chinese New Year – Sally Rippin
Marty and Mei Ling – Phil Cummings
Encounter – Jane Yolen
Death of the Iron Horse – Paul Goble

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