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SUMMARY:Genocide and the ridiculous: Frances Hardinge\, Gullstruck Island\
 , and writing the horrific for children. - Farah Mendlesohn\, Middlesex Un
 iversity
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:I will be  discussing how Frances Hardinge uses the language a
 nd imagery of the ridiculous in Gullstruck Island to introduce children to
  persecution\, genocide and other amusing habits. In Gullstruck Island she
  constructs a text grounded in theories of post-colonialism which destabil
 ise readings of “normal” and expose the degree to which “normal” i
 s a complex inter-action of the ideology imposed by the colonial\, and res
 isted and negotiated by the colonised.\n\nDr. Farah Mendlesohn is Reader i
 n Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature at Middlesex University. She has 
 served as President of the International Association of the Fantastic in t
 he Arts\, and as head of programme for a Worldcon. Between 2001 and 2007 s
 he edited  Foundation: the International Review of Science Fiction\, and s
 he has edited several essay collections. Forthcoming is the Cambridge Comp
 anion to Fantasy which she edited with Professor Edward James. Her researc
 h includes books on Diana Wynne Jones\, and on science fiction for childre
 n and teens\, but her best known book is Rhetorics of Fantasy. She is curr
 ently working on an introduction to children's fantasy literature with Pro
 fessor Mike Levy. \n\n
LOCATION:Room 104\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, 
 Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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