01301nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_168613 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 25.99 820.9353 P617 Pierce, Pierce The country of lost children : an Australian anxiety Peter Pierce Cambridge,New York Cambridge University Press 1999 The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children traces this ambivalent and disturbing history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from poetry, fiction and newspaper reports to paintings and films, The Country of Lost Children analyses the cultural and moral implications of the lost child in our history and illuminates a crucial aspect of our present condition. At its core are confronting, often troubling, questions about childhood itself. Australian literature,Missing children in literature,Văn học Úc,Sự mất tích của những đứa trẻ History and criticism,Lịch sử và phê bình Quốc, Năm Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ