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Direct linkGoodwin, Mary – Children's Literature in Education, 2011
Imperial British India is the point of origin for protagonists in both Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" (1911) and Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Books" (1894-1895), two influential children's stories in which late Victorian notions of childhood education and nature converge with those of national and imperial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Literature, Childrens Literature, Outdoor Education
Stewart, Susan Louise – Children's Literature in Education, 2008
The author analyzes two texts, Gloria Whelan's "Homeless Bird" and Deborah Ellis's "Parvana's Journey", in an attempt to explain some of the problems and difficulties associated with those texts. The author examines Whelan's representations of India and finds troubling binaries associated with that text. In comparison, the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Problems, Foreign Countries, Reader Response
Peer reviewedWhitcombe, Bobbie – Children's Literature in Education, 1983
Examines the works of the Indian author, Farrukh Dhondy, who wants his readers to explore a society that produces "ethnic problems." (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, English Literature, Ethnic Discrimination
