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Boys and Girls in No Man's Land
Susan Fisher
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Description for Boys and Girls in No Man's Land
Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, Boys and Girls in No Man's Land explores the role of children in the nation's war effort. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520.
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort.
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort.
Susan R. Fisher also considers how the representation of the war has changed in Canadian children's literature. During the war, the conflict was invariably presented as noble and thrilling, but recent Canadian children's books paint a very different picture. What once was regarded a morally uplifting struggle, rich in lessons of service and sacrifice, is now ... Read more
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Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442642249
SKU
V9781442642249
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99-1
About Susan Fisher
Susan R. Fisher teaches in the Department of English at the University of the Fraser Valley.
Reviews for Boys and Girls in No Man's Land
’Fisher’s thoughtful analysis confronts the moral dilemmas posed by Canada’s involvement in the war, includes dissident voices, considers the production and reception of texts, and includes young people’s voices through the letters they wrote to various childern’s magazines.... A well researched book that will act as a foundation for future scholarship.’
Kristine Alexander
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