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Subject(s)

• Children's literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Children—Books and reading [Browse]

Editor

• Stephens, John, 1944- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge companions. [More in this series]
• Routledge Companions

Summary note

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• part, I Concepts and theories
• chapter Introduction / John Stephens Celia Abicalil Belmiro Alice Curry Li Lifang Yasmine S. Motawy
• chapter 1 Globalization and glocalization / Anna Katrina Gutierrez
• chapter 2 The unhu literary gaze
• An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts / Cuthbeth Tagwirei
• chapter 3 Realism and magic in Latin American children’s books / Fanuel Hanán Díaz
• chapter 4 Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young
• The Confucian tradition / Lijun Bi
• chapter 5 Egyptian children’s literature
• Ideology and politics / Nadia El Kholy
• chapter 6 “The Trees, they have long memories”
• Animism and the ecocritical imagination in indigenous young adult fiction / Alice Curry
• chapter 7 Grounds for “rights reading” practices
• A view to children’s literature in Zimbabwe / Robert Muponde
• chapter 8 The construction of a modern child and a Chinese national character
• Translating Alice / Xu Xu
• chapter 9 Violence and death in Brazilian children’s and young adult literature / Alice Áurea Penteado Martha
• part, II Historical contexts and national identity
• chapter 10 Indigenous and juvenile
• When books from villages arrive at bookstores / Maria Inês de Almeida
• chapter 11 The British Empire and Indian nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s historical poems and The Land of Cards / Supriya Goswami
• chapter 12 “Breaking the mirror”
• Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean children’s stories / Aisha Spencer
• chapter 13 Postcoloniality, globalization, and transcultural production of children’s literature in postwar Taiwan / Andrea Mei-ying Wu
• chapter 14 The paradoxical negotiation of coloniality and postcoloniality in African children’s literature with particular reference to Zimbabwe / Mickias Musiyiwa
• chapter 15 “Imperial gospel”The Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa / Jaqueline S. du Toit
• chapter 16 Children’s literature in the GCC Arab states / Sabah Abdulkareem Aisawi Faraj Dughayyim Addhafeeri
• part, III Cultural forms and children’s texts
• chapter 17 Imagology, narrative modalities and Korean picture books / Sung-Ae Lee
• chapter 18 Ethnic-racial relations in literature for children and young people in Brazil / Celia Abicalil Belmiro Aracy Alves Martins
• chapter 19 The crucible
• Forging a hybrid identity in a multicultural world / Suchismita Banerjee
• chapter 20 Contemporary poetry for children and youth in Brazil / Maria Zélia Versiani Machado
• chapter 21 Every which way
• Direction and narrative time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash series / Iman Hamam
• chapter 22 Old/new media for Muslim children in English and Arabic
• The forest, the trees and the mushrooms / Yasmine Motawy
• chapter 23 Brazilian children’s literature and booklet literature
• Approximations and distances / José Hélder Pinheiro Alves
• chapter 24 Brazilian children’s literature in the age of digital culture / Edgar Roberto Kirchof
• part, IV Traditional story and adaptation
• chapter 25 “M’Riddle, M’Riddle, M’Yanday, O”
• Folktales of the Bahamas as signposts of heritage and as children’s literature / Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
• chapter 26 Breaking and making of cross-species friendships in the Panćatantra 1 / Lalita Pandit Hogan
• chapter 27 Child Hanuman and the politics of being a superhero / Anuja Madan
• chapter 28 Writing animal novels in Chinese children’s literature 1 / Ying Hou Aiping Nie
• chapter 29 The centrality of Hawaiian mythology in three genres of Hawai‘i’s contemporary folk literature for children / Stuart Ching Jann Pataray-Ching
• chapter 30 From orality to print
• Construction of Nso identity in folk tales / Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
• part, V Picture books across the majority world
• chapter 31 The granddaughters of Scheherazade / Bahia Shehab
• chapter 32 Children’s book illustration in Colombia
• Notes for a history / Silvia Castrillón
• chapter 33 The shôjo (girl) aesthetic in Japanese illustrated and picture books / Helen Kilpatrick
• chapter 34 “Light like a bird, not a feather”
• Science picture books from China and the USA / Fengxia Tan
• chapter 35 Illustrated books in ThailandFrom Mana-Manee to the eighty picture books project / Salinee Antarasena
• chapter 36 Early childhood literature in Brazil and Mexico
• Illustrated books for children aged 0 to 3 / Alma Carrasco Mônica Correia Baptista
• chapter 37 Conception and trends of Iranian picture books / Morteza Khosronejad Atiyeh Firouzmand Fatemeh Farnia
• chapter 38 Multimodal children’s books in Turkey
• Illustrated books and picture books / Ilgım Veryeri Alaca
• part, VI Trends in children’s and young adult literatures
• chapter 39 Recent trends and themes in realist Chinese children’s fiction / Li Lifang
• chapter 40 The Moribito series and its relation to trends in Japanese children’s literature 1 / Yasuko Doi
• chapter 41 Recent trends and themes in Malaysian children’s fiction / Sharifah A. Osman Lai Suat Yan Siti Rohaini Kassim
• chapter 42 Brazilian literature for children and youth
• Between the reader and the market / Regina Zilberman
• chapter 43 Development of literature for children and young people in Chile / Manuel Peña Muñoz Helen Satchwell
• chapter 44 Children’s and young adult literature in Guatemala
• A mirror turned over to face the wall / Frieda Liliana Morales Barco
• chapter 45 Breaking illusions
• Contradictory representations of African childhood / Shalini Nadaswaran
• chapter 46 Facing up to reality
• Recent developments in South Africa’s English literature for the young / Sandra Stadler
• chapter 47 “I do yearn for change, but I am afraid as well”
• An analysis of Iranian contemporary young adult novels / Morteza Khosronejad Fatemeh Farnia Soudabeh Shokrollahzadeh.

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ISBN

• 1-315-77166-7
• 1-317-67606-8
• 1-317-67607-6

LCCN

2017024787

OCLC

994591964

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315771663

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