Bücher von Christine (University of Warwick Wilkie-Stibbs

Extends the range of critical engagement with children's fiction by exploring the feminine subject in paradigm texts by Margaret Mahy and Gillian Cross.

Juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children/young adults to explore how Western culture has imagined, defined, and dealt with their outsider status - whether orphaned, homeless, refugee, victims of abuse, or exploited - and how processes of economic, social, or political impoverishment are sustained in regimes of power and authority.