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What does it mean to ‘belong’? Until now, this book has dealt with one meaning of the word, the notion of belonging in the sense of feeling part of a community or country, of having links and ties with its past and present and being able to contribute to its future. It is a sense of kinship and familiarity, overlaid with deep feelings of affection and identity.
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Nancy Bond, A String in the Harp. New York: Athenaeum, 1974.
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. London: Lions, 1992; fp 1950. The ‘recommended’ reading order, thanks to the literary trustee of the Lewis estate, Walter Hooper, has The Magician’s Nephew coming first; I disagree vehemently with the damage that this choice does to the elements of surprise in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, especially such lines as ‘None of the children knew who Asian was any more than you do … (LWW 65). Also The Last Battle (London: Lions 1992, fp 1956).
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Filmer-Davies, K. (1996). Belonging and the Right of Possession: Children’s Novels. In: Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24991-6_7
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