From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity by Elizabeth Galway
English | 15 May 2008 | ISBN: 0415958482 | 211 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 15 May 2008 | ISBN: 0415958482 | 211 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression.