Stephens The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-67606-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions

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:

- Theoretical Issues in International Children’s Literature
- National Identity and Historical Contexts
- Cross-cultural Encounters
- Children’s Texts and Cultural Forms
- Origins – Folktale and Traditional Story
- Global Children’s 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephens, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: Concepts and Theories

1. Globalization and Glocalization

ANNA KATRINA GUTIERREZ

2. The unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts.

CUTHBETH TAGWIREI

3. Realism and Magic in Latin American Children’s Books

FANUEL HANÁN DIÁZ

4. Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: the Confucian tradition

LIJUN BI

5. Egyptian Children’s Literature: Ideology & Politics

NADIA EL KHOLY

6. "The Trees, they have long memories": Animism and the Ecocritical Imagination in Indigenous Young Adult Fiction

ALICE CURRY

7. Grounds for ‘rights reading’ practices: A View to Children’s Literature in Zimbabwe

ROBERT MUPONDE

8. The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice

XU XU

9. Violence and Death in Brazilian Children’s and Young Adult Literature

ALICE ÁUREA PENTEADO MARTHA

PART II: Historical contexts and national identity

10. Indigenous and juvenile: when books from villages arrive at bookstores

MARIA INÊS DE ALMEIDA

11. The British Empire and Indian Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Historical Poems and The Land of Cards

SUPRIYA GOSWAMI

12. "Breaking the Mirror": Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean Children’s Stories.

AISHA SPENCER

13. Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Transcultural Production of

Children’s Literature in Postwar Taiwan

ANDREA MEI-YING WU

14. The Paradoxical Negotiation of Coloniality and Postcoloniality in African Children’s Literature with Particular Reference to Zimbabwe

MICKIAS MUSIYIWA

15. "Imperial gospel": the Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa

JAQUELINE S. DU TOIT

16. Children's Literature in the GCC Arab States

SABAH ABDULKAREEM AISAWI and FARAJ DUGHAYYIM ALDHAFEERI

PART III: Cultural Forms and Children’s Texts

17. Imagology, Narrative Modalities, and Korean Picture Books

SUNG-AE LEE

18. Ethnic-Racial Relations in Literature for Children and Young People in Brazil

CELIA ABICALIL BELMIRO and ARACY ALVES MARTINS

19. The Crucible: Forging a Hybrid Identity in a Multicultural World

SUCHISMITA BANERJEE

20. Contemporary Poetry for Children and Youth in Brazil

MARIA ZÉLIA VERSIANI MACHADO

21. Every Which Way: Direction and Narrative Time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash Series

IMAN HAMAM

22. Old/New Media for Muslim Children in English and Arabic: The Forest, the Trees, and the Mushrooms

YASMINE MOTAWY

23. Brazilian Children's Literature and Booklet Literature: Approximations and Distances

JOSÉ HÉLDER PINHEIRO ALVES

24. Brazilian Children’s Literature in the Age of Digital Culture

EDGAR ROBERTO KIRCHOF

PART IV: Traditional Story and Adaptation

25. "M’Riddle, M’Riddle, M’Yanday, O": Folktales of The Bahamas as Signposts of Heritage and as Children’s Literature

PATRICIA GLINTON-MEICHOLAS

26. Breaking and Making of Cross-Species Friendships in the Pancantantra

LALITA PANDIT HOGAN

27. Child Hanuma

Über Autor(innen)

John Stephens is Emeritus Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia. He is a former President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, and currently Editor of International Research in Children’s Literature. In 2007 he received the 11th International Brothers Grimm Award.

Section Editors:

Celia Abicalil Belmiro is a Senior Lecturer 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. Alice has a degree in English Literature from Oxford University and a PhD in Children’s Literature from Macquarie University, Sydney.

Li Lifang is Professor and Vice-dean of the School of Literature, Lanzhou University, Gansu, P.R.China.

Yasmine S. Motawy is Senior Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.