Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children’s Fiction 1990-2012: Writing Home (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
	References
Chapter 2: Home, Childhood, and Children’s Literature
	Changing Concepts of Home
	Home, Homeland, and Childhood
	Irish Children’s Fiction: Home, Homeland, and Decolonization
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Recovery of Origins: Myths of Homeland and Return in the Fantasy Fiction of O.R. Melling
	Nostalgia and Essentialism
	Mother Ireland and the Female Returnee
	Unity and Duality
	The Viability of Ireland as Home
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Continuity and Change: The Tradition/Modernity Dialectic in the Construction of Home in Kate Thompson’s The New Policeman and Creature of the Night
	Positioning Thompson in an Irish Literary Tradition
	A Place Called Home
	Tradition, Modernity, and the Unhomely
	Mother, Home, and Male Subjectivity
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Internationalization or Globalization? Myth, Technology, and Mobility in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl Series
	Globalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism
	Technology and Power
	Mobility and Privilege
	Home, Boundedness, and Surveillance
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Inclusions and Exclusions: Debunking Myths of Home and Homelessness in the Fiction of Siobhán Parkinson
	Re-visioning the Past
	Debunking the Myth of the West as Home
	Voices from the Edge
	Sameness and Difference
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Unhomely Secrets in the Work of Siobhan Dowd
	Transgressive Females, Home, and the Close-knit Community
	Borders, Partition, and Male Subjectivity
	Myths of Mother(land) and Return
	Conclusion: Secrets, Revelations, and the Possibility of Home
	References
Chapter 8: Conclusion
	References
Index