Voices of the other

• General Editor's

• Forward

• Preface

• Contributors

• Introduction

• Section I
• Theory

• 1
• Rethinking the Identity of Cultural Otherness: The Discourse of Difference as an Unfinished Project

• 2
• "We are the world, we are the children": The Semiotics of Seduction in International Children's Relief Efforts

• 3
• The View from the Center: British Empire and Post-Empire Children's Literature

• 4
• Continuity, Fissure, or Dysfunction: From Settler Society to Multicultural Society in Australian Fiction

• 5
• Text, Culture, and Postcolonial Children's Literature: A Comparative Perspective

• Section II
• Colonialism

• 6
• Saved by the World: Textuality and Colonization Nineteenth-Century Texts for Children

• 7
• Making Princesses, Remaking A Little Princess

• 8
• Colonial Canada's Young Adult Short Adventure Fiction: The Hunting Tale

• 9
• Lies my Children's Books Taught me: History Meets Popular Culture in "The American Girls" Books

• Section III
• Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism

• 10
• Bedtime Stories: Canadian Multiculturalism and Children's Literature

• 11
• Multiculturalism in Canadian Children's Books: The Embarrassments of History

• 12
• "Initiation for the Nation": Ngg wa Thiong'o's Writing for Children

• 13
• Wrestling with the Past: The Young Adult Novels of Buchi Emecheta

• 14
• "And the Celt Knew the Indian": Knowingness, Postcolonialism, Children's Literature

• 15
• Reviving or Revising Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo: Postcolonial Hero or Signifying Monkey"

• Afterword: The Merits and Demerits of the Postcolonial Approach to Writings in English

• Index