Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Flights of Fantasy? or, Space-Time Compression in Asian-Australian Picture Books
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Lunt looks at how 'diasporic experiences are negotiated across time and space' (65) in the picture books A Year of Pink Pieces and Old Magic. The analysis looks specifically at 'the ways in which hybridsed space operates as a function of power and subjectivity central to the project of mediating narratives about Asian-Australian diasporic cultures' (65). As a method for interpreting the 'negotiations of space, place and identity in the global passage of peoples and cultures' (69), Lunt takes into consideration the positionings, flows and folds of personal connections made in both texts by focusing on the images of kites and streamers as 'fluid hyphens' that 'make connections between worlds conceived otherwise as separate and distinct' (69). She argues that both texts 'navigate the arbitrary stasis of cultural boundaries' and make it possible 'to conceive the ways in which disaporic connections transcend space and time' through the akcnowledgement of 'multiple registers and negotiations (renegotiations) of space, place, identity and power relations' (69-70).

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65-70 http://www.paperschildlit.com/pdfs/Papers_2008_v18no2_p65.pdf Flights of Fantasy? or, Space-Time Compression in Asian-Australian Picture Bookssmall AustLit logo Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature
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