The politics of picture books: Stories of displaced children in twenty-first-century Australia
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Tomsic, Mary. (2018). The politics of picture books: Stories of displaced children in twenty-first-century Australia. History Australia. 15(2), pp. 339 - 356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2018.1452156
Authors | Tomsic, Mary |
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Abstract | This article uses cultural representations to write refugee history. It examines twenty-first-century picture books about displaced children, alongside published responses to them, to explore how refugee experiences and histories are constructed, both for and about children, in an Australian context. The visual literary form of picture books as political texts is examined as a space for discussion and dialogue. Published responses to them, however, more commonly reveal rigid interpretations of imagined readers, invoking binary divisions between displaced and non-displaced children. Through these sources, questions of humanisation and (de)politicisations in refugee history are considered. |
Keywords | immigration; refugees; picture books; children; Australia |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | History Australia |
Journal citation | 15 (2), pp. 339 - 356 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis Australasia |
ISSN | 1833-4881 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2018.1452156 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85046637798 |
Page range | 339 - 356 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Grant ID | FL140100049 |
Place of publication | Australia |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/85943/the-politics-of-picture-books-stories-of-displaced-children-in-twenty-first-century-australia
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