Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque

Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths'; historiographic metafiction; difference and ex-centricity; globalisation and media.

Author: C. Allan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/10/2012
Pages: 201
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230319493

About the Author
CHERIE ALLAN is a Lecturer in Children's Literature at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has also worked on a number of research projects for AustLit: the Australian Literature Resource and is affiliated with the Children and Youth Research Centre at QUT.