Australian not by blood, but by character: Soldiers and refugees in Australian children's picture books

Martin Kerby; Margaret Baguley; Nathan Lowien; Kay Ayre

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_18

Australian not by blood, but by character: Soldiers and refugees in Australian children's picture books

Martin Kerby
, Margaret Baguley
, Nathan Lowien
, Kay Ayre

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In recent years, Australian children’s picture books dealing with the First World War have balanced the increasingly sentimentalized construct of the Australian soldier as a victim of trauma and the traditional use of Australian war literature as a means of exploring national identity. It is an approach that has proved quite malleable, for variations of it have been used in children’s picture books dealing with the far more polemic issue of refugees. By drawing on this framework, authors and illustrators position refugees as victims of trauma who have displayed qualities that are entirely consistent with a construct of national identity grounded in martial achievement. Readers of these texts are encouraged to welcome these arrivals at a literal level as new citizens and symbolically as new inductees into a pervasive construct of national identity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914: The British Isles, the United States and Australasia
Editors	Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Janet McDonald
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Pages	309-326
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9783319969855, 9783319969862
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_18
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2018

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Kerby, M., Baguley, M., Lowien, N., & Ayre, K. (2018). Australian not by blood, but by character: Soldiers and refugees in Australian children's picture books. In M. Kerby, M. Baguley, & J. McDonald (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914: The British Isles, the United States and Australasia (1 ed., pp. 309-326). Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_18

Kerby, Martin ; Baguley, Margaret ; Lowien, Nathan et al. / Australian not by blood, but by character : Soldiers and refugees in Australian children's picture books. The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914: The British Isles, the United States and Australasia. editor / Martin Kerby ; Margaret Baguley ; Janet McDonald. 1. ed. Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2018. pp. 309-326

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Kerby, M, Baguley, M, Lowien, N & Ayre, K 2018, Australian not by blood, but by character: Soldiers and refugees in Australian children's picture books. in M Kerby, M Baguley & J McDonald (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914: The British Isles, the United States and Australasia. 1 edn, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, Switzerland, pp. 309-326. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_18

Australian not by blood, but by character: Soldiers and refugees in Australian children's picture books. / Kerby, Martin; Baguley, Margaret; Lowien, Nathan et al.
The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914: The British Isles, the United States and Australasia. ed. / Martin Kerby; Margaret Baguley; Janet McDonald. 1. ed. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2018. p. 309-326.

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