Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children's Fiction 1990-2012: Writing Home

CONTENTS

1   Introduction

2   Home Childhood and Children's Literature

     Changing Concepts of Home

     Home, Homeland and Childhood

     Irish Children's Fiction: Home, Homeland and Decolonization

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

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

     Tradition, Modernity and the Unhomely

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

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

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

     Secrets, Revelations and the Possibility of Home

8: Conclusion

Index