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O'Sullivan seeks to 'identify attitudes to war in Australian children's literature' in the period 1914-1994, noting in particular the movement from identification with Britain and the Empire in the early decades of this period to an affinity with Asia and the Pacific in the latter decades (34). The discussion begins with a literature review of Australian and overseas critical research in this field and then surveys a large number of (mainly Australian) novels with war as the central/pivotal theme. O'Sullivan concludes that there has been a change in attitudes to war in Australian children's literature, whereby 'once Australia was part of the British Empire and prepared to fight for that anywhere in the world, now multicultural Australia takes a broader view and sees herself as part of a global family' (47).
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Attitudes to War in Australian Children's Literature
Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature
Subjects:
- Fly West 1974 single work autobiography
- Onion Tears 1989 single work children's fiction
- Captain Cub 1917 single work novel
- Those Summer Holidays 1946 single work children's fiction
- Seventeen Seconds 1973 single work biography
- The Other Side of the Family 1986 single work novel
- McKenzie's Boots 1987 single work novel
- A Foreign Father 1978 single work children's fiction
- Boy Soldiers 1990 single work novel
- Nowhere to Hide 1969 single work children's fiction
- Captain Jim 1919 single work children's fiction
- Jim and Wally 1916 single work children's fiction
- The Heart of the School : An Australian School Story 1920 single work children's fiction
- Little Brother 1985 single work children's fiction
- 1914-1944
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