Table des matières

Sebastien Salbayre

Introduction

Peter Hunt

On the Unreliability of Fiction as a Portrayer of Childhood

• 1 FICTION IS, BY DEFINITION, SOMETHING UNTRUE, OR NOT ‘REAL’
• 2 WRITING FOR CHILDREN MANIPULATES CHILDHOOD
• 3 FORM AND GENRE
• 4 THE ATTITUDE OF WRITERS TO CHILDHOOD—TO THEIR OWN CHILDHOODS
• 5 INTERPRETATION OF THE TEXT: KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AGE

Lynne Vallone

Uncanny Visitors: The Child Ghost in “haunted” Children’s Literature

• 1. THE STRANGE CHILD:
• 2. GOLDEN AGE GHOSTS
• 3. POST-WAR HAUNTING

Karen MGavock

“Wrecked at the critical point where the stream and river meet”? Lewis Carroll and the deconstruction of Childhood

Karen Coats

“Saving the world before bedtime”: The Puer Aeternus as a New Paradigm for Selfhood

Virginie Douglas

Desperately Seeking the Child in Children’s Books

• THE CHILD IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS AS A FRAGMENTED AGENCY
• THE PRESENT BLURRING OF CATEGORIES

Sébastien Chapleau

Childist Criticism and the Silenced Voice of the Child: A Widening Critical and Institutional Re-Consideration of Children’s Literature

Sandra L. Beckett

Crossover Versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”

Kamila Vránková

‘Emptiness and Expectation’: Difference, Repetition and Memory in Time-Travel Stories for Children

Margot Hillel

“Helpless and a cripple”: the disabled child in children’s literature and child rescue discourses

Jennifer Milam

The Art of Imagining Childhood in the Eighteenth Century

• PLAY AND THE VISUAL INVENTION OF CHILDHOOD
• FROM ABSORPTION TO IMAGINATIVE RECREATION

Joetta Harty

Children Writing Childhood: Romantic Revolutions in the Imaginary Kingdoms of Thomas Malkin, Thomas De Quincey, and the Brontës

• INTRODUCTION
• PART I – PLAYING HAPPY FAMILIES
• PART II – THOMAS DE QUINCEY’S WORLDS OF STRIFE
• PART III – LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES. CHILDREN IN THE IMAGINARY KINGDOMS OF THE BRONTËS

Nathalie Jaëck

Pip and Jim Hawkins: the Spontaneous generation of two mistakes of fiction

• UP LADS AND AT ‘EM!
• “I STRUGGLED THROUGH THE ALPHABET AS IF IT HAD BEEN A BRAMBLE-BUSH; GETTING CONSIDERABLY WORRIED AND SCRATCHED BY EVERY LETTER.” (39)

Sebastien Salbayre

The language of decadent childhood in Oscar Wilde’s tales

• A DECADENT PICTURE OF CHILDHOOD
• A PICTURE OF DECADENT CHILDHOOD

Shurlee Swain

‘Nettles and thistles...turned into roses for life’. Constructions of childhood in the international child rescue literature 1850-1915

Rose-May Pham Dinh

Their past, our future: the relevance of WW2 experiences for contemporary children

• THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC AS PROTOTYPE
• AN ANGEL FOR MAY OR ALL UNHAPPY CHILDREN ARE THE SAME
• BLITZED, OR WAR IS NOT WHAT IT’S RECKONED TO BE
• HITLER’S DAUGHTER OR DID HITLER WIN THE WAR?

Claude Julien

No Black Agency on the Back Seat: The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

• PLOT LINE OVERVIEW
• READING TWGTB AS A SOCIAL COMMENTARY
• STORY AND HISTORY
• THE NOVEL’S FORM AND DISCOURSE
• THE STUDY GUIDES AND THE ONLINE SITES
• CONCLUSION

Térèsa Gibert

Representing War Trauma in Children’s Fiction: A Child in Prison Camp and Naomi’s Road

Ulrika Andersson

Childhood and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Maori Novel

Adriana Serban

Eternal Life and Everlasting Youth: English translations of Romanian fairy tales

• 1. INTRODUCTION
• 2. TRANSLATING FAIRY TALES
• 3. FAIRY TALES, ISPIRESCU AND TINEREŢE FĂRĂ BĂTRĂNEŢE ŞI VIAŢA FĂRĂ DE MOARTE
• 4. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWO TRANSLATIONS
• 5. DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS AND CONCLUDING REMARKS

Lalita Jagtiani Naumann

Deviation from or Adherence to Tradition: The Image of the Girl Child in The Dark Holds No Terror by Shashi Deshpande

• PART Ι: THE IMPORTANCE OF TRADITION
• PART II: IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD
• PART III: THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS: THE STRANGLEHOLD OF NORMS INSTILLED IN A CHILD
• PART IV: THE RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON THE GIRL, SARU, IN THE DARK HOLDS NO TERROR
• - MENSTRUATION:
• - MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS
• - COMPLEXION
• TOWARDS A CONCLUSION: CHILDREN AS A VISION OF THE FUTURE
• CONCLUSION

Swapna M. Banerjee

Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century India: Some Reflections and Thoughts

• CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (SHISHUSAHITYA) IN BENGALI
• CONCLUDING REMARKS

Monique Chassagnol

De l’enfant mort à l’éternel enfant. L’histoire sans fin de J. M. Barrie

• 1. La mort initiale
• 2. Mourir à Neverland
• 3. La mère, la mer, toujours et encore...
• 4. De l’éternel enfant à l’éternel retour

Cécile Boulaire

De l’épistolaire dans le livre pour enfants

Isabelle Nieres-Chevrel

La civilité puérile et honnête de Maurice Boutet de Monvel ; contraintes bourgeoises et turbulence enfantine

• I. Une civilité puérile et honnête
• II. La mise en images de Boutet de Monvel
• III. Un désordre bien tempéré

Résumés/Abstracts

• ULRIKA ANDERSSON
• SWAPNA M. BANERJEE
• SANDRA L. BECKETT
• CECILE BOULAIRE
• SÉBASTIEN CHAPLEAU
• MONIQUE CHASSAGNOL
• KAREN COATS
• VIRGINIE DOUGLAS
• TÉRÈSA GIBERT
• JOETTA HARTY
• MARGOT HILLEL
• NATHALIE JAËCK
• CLAUDE JULIEN
• KAREN M^C GAVOCK
• JENNIFER MILAM
• LALITA JAGTIANI NAUMANN
• ISABELLE NIERES-CHEVREL
• ROSE-MAY PHAM DINH
• SÉBASTIEN SALBAYRE
• ADRIANA ŞERBAN
• SHURLEE SWAIN
• KAMILA VRÁNKOVÁ

Notices biographiques/Notes on contributors

• ULRIKA ANDERSSON
• SWAPNA BANERJEE
• SANDRA L. BECKETT
• CECILE BOULAIRE
• SEBASTIEN CHAPLEAU
• MONIQUE CHASSAGNOL
• KAREN COATS
• VIRGINIE DOUGLAS
• TÉRÉSA GIBERT
• JOETTA HARTY
• MARGOT HILLEL
• NATHALIE JAËCK
• CLAUDE JULIEN
• KAREN M^C GAVOCK
• JENNIFER MILAM
• LALITA JAGTIANI NAUMANN
• ISABELLE NIÈRES-CHEVREL
• ROSE-MAY PHAM DINH
• SÉBASTIEN SALBAYRE
• ADRIANA ŞERBAN
• SHURLEE SWAIN
• KAMILA VRÁNKOVÁ