Title
Living in Limbo: The Homeward Bounders as a Metaphor for Military Childhood
Files
Role
Author
Department
English & World Languages
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
BOOK ABSTRACT:
Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom is a collection of scholarly essays examining the work of British author Diana Wynne Jones, whose prolific contributions to speculative fiction span the past thirty years. A contemporary of such well known fantastic authors as Alan Garner and Susan Cooper, Jones is also a clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling. Her humorous and exciting stories, many published for children but read by all ages, are also complexly structured and thought provoking. These essays – written by academics and independent scholars from Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia – present a wide variety of approaches to and ideas about Jones’s work. This book will be of interest to Jones’s many admirers and to those who study or appreciate speculative fiction and children’s literature.
First Page
125
Last Page
137
Publication Date
2002
Publisher
Peter Lang Inc.
City
New York
ISBN
9780820456874
Recommended Citation
White, Donna R. “Living in Limbo: The Homeward Bounders as a Metaphor for Military Childhood.” Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, edited by Teya Rosenberg, Martha P. Hixon, Sharon M. Scapple, and Donna R. White. New York: Peter Lang, 2002, 125-37.