Childrens Emperor and Juvenile Resistors a Postcolonial Rereading of Select Colonial Periods 1890 1950 Juvenile Texts

Abstract

The term and#8213;Children s Literatureand#8214; is really difficult to fit into any particular cultural or newlineacademic category; it is a diverse and paradoxical area of study. Actually, as a literary genus, newlineit is really hard to define children s literature as it includes multiple genres like mystery, newlinefantasy, science fiction, crime fiction, and others which make the genre an interesting area of newlinestudy as well as a complicated one. Different critics, scholars and writers have taken this term newlineand#8215;Children s literature in their own course. In a general way, the literary piece which contains newlinethe materials to amuse the children may consider as a part of children s literature. It implies newlinethat a piece of work which is aimed at adult readers may also be called a work for the newlinechildren if that work conveys the textile to make a child interested, laughed, and amused. The newlineadmired critic of children s literature, Peter Hunt in his book Understanding Children s newlineLiterature (1999) defines children s literature as: newlineIt is a category of books the existence of which absolutely depends on supposed newlinerelationships with a particular reading audience: children. The definition of newlineand#8215;children s literature therefore is underpinned by purpose: it wants to be newlinesomething in particular, because this is supposed to connect it with that reading newlineaudience and#8215;children with which it declares itself to be overtly and newlinepurposefully concerned (1). newlineNow a question arises that whether children s books are only for the entertainment of the newlinechildren? Or it does have some quality of a serious literary text? About the content of newlinechildren s literature, Peter Hollindale in Signs of Childness in Children s Books states: newline newline