TY - BOOK AU - Bradford,Clare TI - New world orders in contemporary children's literature: utopian transformations T2 - Critical approaches to children's literature SN - 9780230308565 AV - PN1009.5.U85 B73 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Utopias in literature KW - Children's literature KW - History and criticism N1 - Originally published: 2007; Includes bibliographical references and index; A New World order or a new Dark Age? -- Children's texts, New World rrders and transformative possibilities -- Masters, slaves and entrepreneurs: globalised Utopias and New World order(ing)s -- The lure of the lost paradise: postcolonial Utopias -- Reweaving nature and culture: reading ecocritically -- 'Radiant with possibility': communities and Utopianism -- Ties that bind: reconceptualising home and family -- The struggle to be human in a posthuman world -- Conclusion: The future: what are the prospects? ER -