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The politics of picture books: Stories of displaced children in twenty-first-century Australia
Tomsic, Mary
Tomsic, Mary
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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.
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immigration, refugees, picture books, children, Australia
Date
2018
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Journal article
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History Australia
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15
Issue
2
Page Range
339-356
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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