Children and cultural memory in texts of childhood [electronic resource] / edited by Heather Snell and Lorna Hutchison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1. Reading Canadian : children and national literature in the 1920s / Gail Edwards -- ch. 2. "A Real True Merrican Like Us" : Edith Wharton's past, modern children and American identity / Jenny Glennon -- ch. 3. Nationalism, nostalgia, and intergenerational girlhood : textual and ideological extensions to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little house / Benjamin Lefebvre -- ch. 4. A Japanese history textbook and the construction of World War II memory / Aya Matsushima -- ch. 5. Modern architecture, national traditions, and ambivalent internationalism : an East German architectural text for young readers / Curtis Swope -- ch. 6. "You Say You Want a Revolution" : cultural memory, black nationalist didacticism, and Sonia Sanchez's It's a new day : poems for young brothas and sistuhs / Jean-Philippe Marcoux -- ch. 7. Ambivalent doomsday for the young : nuclear fictions for children and adolescents in the 1980s / Tamar Hager -- ch. 8. Constructing an innocent German past : childhood and national socialism in Dieter Forte's Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen and Martin Walser's Ein springender Brunnen / Nora Maguire -- ch. 9. "Infi nnate Joy" : play, performance, and resistance in Arundhati Roy's The God of small things / Lucy Hopkins -- ch. 10. The seductions of good and evil : competing cultural memories in Steven Keewatin Sanderson's Superhero comics for aboriginal youth / Doris Wolf -- ch. 11. "They're Good with Good Girls" : constructions of childhood in coming-of-age films about the panish Civil War / Anindya Raychaudhuri -- ch. 12. "Does Not Happen" : M.T. Anderson and Terry Pratchett imagine the nation / Adrienne Kertzer.