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In the times when we are surrounded by images, everyday lives saturated by images, why do we lack imagination? What is this relationship between politics and our capacity to imagine? And by an extension, does it deter us from defining a new politics for our social?
Research project
‘These children are people like us’: agency, belonging and the ethics of representing displaced children in the work of Beverley Naidoo
This project is the outcome of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Seven Stories: the National Centre for Children’s Books. Children’s literature has the potential to both contribute to and provide a powerful counternarrative to dehumanising popular discourses about displaced people. A writer of children’s fiction, depicting displaced children in West African, apartheid South Africa and the UK, Beverley Naidoo is in ideal subject for a case study examining this potential. Using Naidoo’s children’s fiction and her archive held by Seven Stories, I use a postcolonial critical approach to interrogate the tensions between belonging and alienation for displaced children. Exploring the ethics of representing minority voices as an outsider, I examine how Naidoo constructs the child as a political actors and situates chi