1st Edition

Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film Global Theories and Implications

Edited By John Stephens Copyright 2013
246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of agency and the circumstances that frame an individual’s decisions and capacities to... Read more

Series Editor’s Foreword  1. Introduction: The Politics of Identity: a Transcultural Perspective on Subjectivity in Writing for Children John Stephens  2. Metamorphosis: The Emergence of Glocal Subjectivities in the Blend of Global, Local, East and West Anna Katrina Gutierrez  3. The Muslima within American Children’s Literature: Female Identity and Subjectivity in Novels about Pakistani-Muslim Characters Seemi Aziz  4. Cooperation and Negotiation—Formation of Subjectivity in Japanese and Australian Picture Books Miyuki Hisaoka  5. Subjectivity and Culture Consciousness in Chinese Children’s Literature Lifang Li  6. "How Can I Be the Protagonist of My Own Life?": Intimations of Hope for Teen Subjectivities in Korean Fiction and Film Sung-Ae Lee  7. Contingent Subjectivity and Masculinity in Japanese Film for Young People Christie Barber  8. Strong Is Beautiful: A Thai-Thai Happiness Salinee Antarasena  9. Subjectivity and Ethnicity in Vietnamese Folktales with Metamorphosed Heroes Tran Quynh Ngoc Bui  10. All is Relative, Nothing is Reliable: Inuyasha and Japanese Subjectivities Mio Bryce 11. Strategic empowerment: a study of subjectivity in contemporary Indian English children’s fiction Suchismita Banerjee  12. Subjectivity without Identity: Huang Chunming’s Fiction in Postcolonial Vein Suh Shan Chen and Ming Cherng Duh  13. Scrivener's Progeny: Writing the Subject Robyn McCallum

Biography

John Stephens is Emeritus Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia.

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award