Overview

Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America, the collection raises awareness of children’s literature and related media as they exist in large regions of the world to which ‘mainstream’ European and North American scholarship pays very little attention. Sections cover: • Concepts and theories • Historical contexts and national identity • Cultural forms and children’s texts • Traditional story and adaptation • Picture books across the majority world • Trends in children’s and young adult literatures. Exposition of the literary, cultural and historical contexts in which children’s literature is produced, together with an exploration of intersections between these literatures and more extensively researched areas, will enhance access and understanding for a large range of international readers. The essays offer an ideal introduction for those newly approaching literature for children in specific areas, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in directions for future scholarship.

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Author:   John Stephens ,  Celia Belmiro ,  Alice Curry ,  Li Lifang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.060kg
ISBN:  

9781138778061

ISBN 10:   1138778060
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   20 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: literary theory around the world Section 1: Theoretical issues in International Children’s Literature Magical Realism in Latin American children's literature The unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts. Grounds for ‘rights reading’ practices Egyptian Children’s Literature: Ideology & Politics Animist materialism in YA dystopian fiction by Indigenous authors: an ecocritical reading The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice 5. Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: the Confucian tradition Violence and Death in Children’s and Young People’s Literature Section 2: Historical contexts and national identity Indigenous and juvenile: when books from villages arrive at bookstores The British Empire and Indian Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Historical Poems and The Land of Card Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean Children’s Stories postcolonialism and neo-colonialism (x1) The Paradoxical Negotiation of Coloniality and Postcoloniality in African Children’s Literature with Particular Reference to Zimbabwe ‘Imperial gospel’: the Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa Children's Literature in the GCC Arab States Section 3: Cross-cultural encounters Korean Picture Books, Imagology, and Narrative Modalities 13. Effects of globalization on development of subjectivity in YA fiction Ethno-racial relations and Brazilian- African children’s literature Notions of self and other among children of diasporic communities Section 4: Children’s texts and cultural forms Contemporary poetry for children and youth in Brazil Every Which Way: Direction and Narrative Time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash Series 14. Old/New Media for Muslim Children: The Forest, The Trees, and The Mushrooms Brazilian Children's Literature and Booklet Literature: approximations and distances New Media Chinese Children’s Literature Brazilian Children’s Literature in the Age of Digital Culture Children's book illustration in Colombia: notes for a history Section 5: Origins – Folktale and Traditional Story Folktales as signposts of cultural heritage Breaking and Making of Cross-Species Friendships in the Panćantantra Bal Hanuman and the Politics of Being a Superhero Animal Fiction in Chinese Children’s Literature The Centrality of Hawaiian Mythology in Three Genres of Hawaiʻi’s Contemporary Folk Literature for Children From Orality to Print: Construction of Nso Identity in Folk Tales. Section 6: Picture Books Little Feminists: The Granddaughters of Scheherazade Japanese Picturebooks ""Light like a Bird, Not a Feather"": Science Picture Books from China and the USA Illustrated books in Thailand: From Mana-Manee to the 80 Picture Books Project Iranian Picturebooks Multimodal Children’s Books in Turkey: Illustrated Books and Picturebooks Early childhood literature in Latin America: Picturebooks for children from 0 to 3 years Section 7: Global children’s literatures Recent Trends and Themes in Chinese Children’s Fiction The Moribito Series and its relation to trends in Japanese Children’s Literature Recent Trends and Themes in Malaysian Children's Fiction Brazilian Literature for young people: between the reader and the market Development of Literature for Children and Young People in Chile Children´s and young adult literature in Guatemala: a mirror turned over the wall Breaking Illusions: Contradictory Representations of African Childhood Recent developments in South Africa’s English literature for the young Recent YA Fiction in Iran"

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John Stephens is Emeritus Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia. Section Editors: Celia Abicalil Belmiro is a Professor in the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and researcher at the Centre of Literacy, Reading and Writing (CEALE/ UFMG). Alice Curry is the founder of Lantana Publishing, an independent publishing house in the UK specializing in multicultural children’s books. Li Lifang is Professor and Vice- dean of the School of Literature, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China. Yasmine S. Motawy is Senior Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

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