Understanding Children's Literature, First Edition by Peter Hunt

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The ‘subject’ and his or her ‘subjectivity’ is a social construction: ‘Thus a biological female can have a masculine subjectivity (that is, she can make sense of the world and of her self and her place in that world through patriarchal ideology). Similarly, a black can have a white subjectivity’ (Fiske 1987:258). But, because subjectivity is a social construction, it is always open to change. All cultural systems, including language, literature and the products of mass communication, play a part in the construction and reconstruction of the subject.

1955) Childhood in Contemporary Cultures, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Melbourne, S. (1987) ‘The portrayal of the Maori in New Zealand children’s fiction’, in Lees, S. ) A Track to Unknown Water: Proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim Conference on Children’s Literature, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. E. Merrill. Paul, L. (1990) ‘Enigma variations: what feminist theory knows about children’s literature’, in Hunt, P. ) Children’s Literature: The Development of Criticism, London: Routledge.

The fifth characteristic is that cultural studies is not exclusively concerned with popular culture to the exclusion of ‘high’ culture, or vice versa: ‘Cultural studies does not require us to repudiate elite cultural forms…rather cultural studies requires us to identify the operation of specific practices, of how they continuously reinscribe the line between legitimate and popular culture, and of what they accomplish in specific contexts’ (Grossberg et al. 1992:13). As a result, cultural studies does interest itself in the formation, continuation and changes in literary canons, including those of children’s literature.

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