Call for contributors: Utopian Writing for Children
We are calling for papers to include in a collection of essays about
aspects of utopia in Children's Literature.
Works by writers as diverse as Frank Baum, George MacDonald, Katherine
Paterson, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Gurney and Lois Lowry portray utopias or
dystopias, and/or raise issues fundamental to utopian studies, such as the
nature of government and societal organizations. Both children's and
utopian literatures have educational and social agendas--and both delight
in the use of the imagination. Critical attention on how these two growing
fields intersect is long overdue.
We would certainly be interested in getting an article relating to
children's editions of *Gulliver's Travels* and the like.
Other suggested topics include:
" Fantasy and utopia
" Dystopias in Children's Literature
" Ethics of utopia
" Fairy tales and utopia
" Environmental/ ecological depictions of utopia
" Issues of self-governance and governing
" Fantasies of control
" Questions of nationalism and Children's Literature (including propaganda)
" Nineteenth-century treatments of utopia
" Feminist utopias in Children's Literature
" Secret worlds
" Uses of magic
" Portrayals of the past as utopia
" The utopian home
" School as utopia/ dystopia
" Utopia as a picnic. . . food in Children's Literature
" Topsy-turvyism in Children's Literature
Please send a two-page, double-spaced abstract of your proposed essay, as
well as a brief cv, to one of the following addresses or email addresses by
November 1, 2000:
Carrie Hintz
Department of English
Queens College/CUNY
Flushing, NY 11367
carriehintz@hotmail.com
Elaine Ostry
Department of English
SUNY-Plattsburgh
Champlain Valley Hall
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
eostry@hotmail.com
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