The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-03-217897-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 807 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephens, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: Concepts and Theories1. Globalization and GlocalizationANNA KATRINA GUTIERREZ2. The unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts.CUTHBETH TAGWIREI3. Realism and Magic in Latin American Children’s BooksFANUEL HANÁN DIÁZ4. Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: the Confucian tradition LIJUN BI5. Egyptian Children’s Literature: Ideology & PoliticsNADIA EL KHOLY6. "The Trees, they have long memories": Animism and the Ecocritical Imagination in Indigenous Young Adult FictionALICE CURRY7. Grounds for ‘rights reading’ practices: A View to Children’s Literature in ZimbabweROBERT MUPONDE8. The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice XU XU9. Violence and Death in Brazilian Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureALICE ÁUREA PENTEADO MARTHAPART II: Historical contexts and national identity10. Indigenous and juvenile: when books from villages arrive at bookstoresMARIA INÊS DE ALMEIDA11. The British Empire and Indian Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Historical Poems and The Land of CardsSUPRIYA GOSWAMI12. "Breaking the Mirror": Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean Children’s Stories.AISHA SPENCER13. Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Transcultural Production ofChildren’s Literature in Postwar TaiwanANDREA MEI-YING WU14. The Paradoxical Negotiation of Coloniality and Postcoloniality in African Children’s Literature with Particular Reference to ZimbabweMICKIAS MUSIYIWA15. "Imperial gospel": the Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South AfricaJAQUELINE S. DU TOIT16. Children's Literature in the GCC Arab StatesSABAH ABDULKAREEM AISAWI and FARAJ DUGHAYYIM ALDHAFEERIPART III: Cultural Forms and Children’s Texts17. Imagology, Narrative Modalities, and Korean Picture BooksSUNG-AE LEE18. Ethnic-Racial Relations in Literature for Children and Young People in Brazil CELIA ABICALIL BELMIRO and ARACY ALVES MARTINS19. The Crucible: Forging a Hybrid Identity in a Multicultural WorldSUCHISMITA BANERJEE20. Contemporary Poetry for Children and Youth in BrazilMARIA ZÉLIA VERSIANI MACHADO21. Every Which Way: Direction and Narrative Time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash SeriesIMAN HAMAM22. Old/New Media for Muslim Children in English and Arabic: The Forest, the Trees, and the Mushrooms YASMINE MOTAWY23. Brazilian Children's Literature and Booklet Literature: Approximations and DistancesJOSÉ HÉLDER PINHEIRO ALVES24. Brazilian Children’s Literature in the Age of Digital CultureEDGAR ROBERTO KIRCHOFPART 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-MEICHOLAS26. Breaking and Making of Cross-Species Friendships in the Pancantantra LALITA PANDIT HOGAN27. Child Hanuman and the Politics of Being a SuperheroANUJA MADAN28. Writing Animal Novels in Chinese Children’s LiteratureHOU YING29. The Centrality of Hawaiian Mythology in Three Genres of Hawai¿i’s Contemporary Folk Literature for ChildrenSTUART CHING AND JANN PATARAY-CHING30. From Orality to Print: Construction of Nso Identity in Folk TalesVIVIAN YENIKA-AGBAWPART V: Picture Books across the Majority World31. The Granddaughters of ScheherazadeBAHIA SHEHAB32. Children’s Book Illustration in Colombia: Notes for a HistorySILVIA CASTRILLÓN33. The Shôjo (girl) Aesthetic in Japanese Illustrated and Picture BooksHELEN KILPATRICK34. "Light like a Bird, Not a Feather": Science Picture Books from China and the USAFENGXIA TAN35. Illustrated books in Thailand: From Mana-Manee to the 80 Picture Books ProjectSALINEE ANTARASENA36. Early Childhood Literature in Brazil and Mexico. Illustrated Books for Children 0-3ALMA CARRASCO AND MÔNICA CORREIA BAPTISTA 37. Conception and Trends of Iranian Picture BooksMORTEZA KHOSRONEJAD, ATIYEH FIROUZMAND and FATEMEH FARNIA38. Multimodal Children’s Books in Turkey: Illustrated Books and Picturebooks ILGIM VERYERI ALACA PART VI: Trends in Children’s and Young Adult Literatures 39. Recent Trends and Themes in Realist Chinese Children’s Fiction LI LIFANG40. The Moribito Series and its Relation to Trends in Japanese Children’s Literature YASUKO DOI41. Recent Trends and Themes in Malaysian Children's Fiction SHARIFAH A. OSMAN, LAI SUAT YAN AND SITI ROHAINI KASSIM42. Brazilian Literature for Children and Youth: Between the Reader and the MarketREGINA ZILBERMAN43. Development of Literature for Children and Young People in ChileMANUEL PEÑA MUÑOZ44. Children’s and young adult literature in Guatemala: A Mirror Turned over the WallFRIEDA LILIANA MORALES BARCO45. Breaking Illusions: Contradictory Representations of African ChildhoodSHALINI NADASWARAN46. Facing up to Reality: Recent Developments in South Africa’s English Literature for the YoungSANDRA STADLER47. ‘I Do Yearn for Change, but I Am Afraid as Well’An Analysis of Iranian Contemporary Young Adult NovelsMORTEZA KHOSRONEJAD, FATEMEH FARNIA, AND SOUDABEH SHOKROLLAHZADEH

Über Autor(innen)

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.