Children's Literature Advancing Australia

Johnston, RR

Children's Literature Advancing Australia

Johnston, RR

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Publisher:: John Hopkins University
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Bookbird, 1999, 37 (1), pp. 13 - 18
Issue Date:: 1999-01

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dc.contributor.author	Johnston, RR https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5377	en_US
dc.date.issued	1999-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Bookbird, 1999, 37 (1), pp. 13 - 18	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0006-7377	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16038
dc.description.abstract	Much of Australian literature has been obsessed by the nation's search for its identity. National identity is a part of personal identity: subjectivity-awareness of self as a locus of beingness and meaning-is intricately negotiated from encounters with what Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls "lifeworld.'' A child's life-world may be focused on the house image, the place that, in Gaston Bachelard's words, "shelters daydreaming...protects the dreamer...allows one to daydream in peace.'2 It must also, as Jack Zipes notes, referring to the Marxist idea of communality, focus on the people it contains. Meaning cannot be achieved by a human being alone. The dependence on other beings must be acknowledged if the individual is to raise himself and stride forward in an upright posture toward home, which, as we know, is the beginning of history, a realm without alienating conditions.3	en_US
dc.publisher	John Hopkins University	en_US
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dc.title	Children's Literature Advancing Australia	en_US
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Abstract:

Much of Australian literature has been obsessed by the nation's search for its identity. National identity is a part of personal identity: subjectivity-awareness of self as a locus of beingness and meaning-is intricately negotiated from encounters with what Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls "lifeworld.'' A child's life-world may be focused on the house image, the place that, in Gaston Bachelard's words, "shelters daydreaming...protects the dreamer...allows one to daydream in peace.'2 It must also, as Jack Zipes notes, referring to the Marxist idea of communality, focus on the people it contains. Meaning cannot be achieved by a human being alone. The dependence on other beings must be acknowledged if the individual is to raise himself and stride forward in an upright posture toward home, which, as we know, is the beginning of history, a realm without alienating conditions.3

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