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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Burden of Truth
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Truth, Lies and Survival
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Front Matter
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Secrets and Secrecy
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Front Matter
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Tangled Webs
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'As Mallan's discussions demonstrate, in terms of moral takes on the value of truth-telling or lying, children's fiction is much more versatile than one first might think... Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction is, truly, a thought-provoking work.' - Sanna Lehtonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
'Kerry Mallan's Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction is an important study of books that introduce young readers to the complexities of truth. Mallan offers a theoretically informed treatment of the ethical issues relating to how we communicate truthfully and duplicitously in both the private and the public spheres. She takes her theoretical acumen into her close readings of a range of contemporary (and a few more time-honoured) texts for child and young adult readerships. Her choice of texts to scrutinize includes several of the most important recent books by the likes of Brian Selznick, Daniel Handler, Suzanne Collins, and Cory Doctorow. This is a major achievement.' - Roderick McGillis, Emeritus Professor of English, the University of Calgary, Canada
'Kerry Mallan, in this fascinating addition to Palgrave Macmillan's Critical approaches to children's literature series, explores not only the paradox of our searching for truth in fictional stories, but also the very moral conundrum of the essence and social necessity of Truth.' - New Perspectives on Children's Literature
'Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction opens up promising avenues of inquiryinto the status of truth in chidren's fiction that readers will be eager to explore further.' - Sarah F. Sahn, Children's Literature Association Quarterly
About the author
Kerry Mallan is Professor and Director of the Children and Youth Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Her previous books include Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (2009) and New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations (with Clare Bradford, John Stephens, and Robyn McCallum, 2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction
Authors: Kerry Mallan
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137274663
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Kerry Mallan 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27465-6Published: 25 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44578-3Published: 25 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27466-3Published: 25 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 238
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Children's Literature, Youth Culture, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging