1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature
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.
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 Hanuman and the Politics of Being a Superhero
ANUJA MADAN
28. Writing Animal Novels in Chinese Children’s Literature
HOU YING
29. The Centrality of Hawaiian Mythology in Three Genres of Hawai¿i’s Contemporary Folk Literature for Children
STUART CHING AND JANN PATARAY-CHING
30. From Orality to Print: Construction of Nso Identity in Folk Tales
VIVIAN YENIKA-AGBAW
PART V: Picture Books across the Majority World
31. The Granddaughters of Scheherazade
BAHIA SHEHAB
32. Children’s Book Illustration in Colombia: Notes for a History
SILVIA CASTRILLÓN
33. The Shôjo (girl) Aesthetic in Japanese Illustrated and Picture Books
HELEN KILPATRICK
34. "Light like a Bird, Not a Feather": Science Picture Books from China and the USA
FENGXIA TAN
35. Illustrated books in Thailand: From Mana-Manee to the 80 Picture Books Project
SALINEE ANTARASENA
36. Early Childhood Literature in Brazil and Mexico. Illustrated Books for Children 0-3
ALMA CARRASCO AND MÔNICA CORREIA BAPTISTA
37. Conception and Trends of Iranian Picture Books
MORTEZA KHOSRONEJAD, ATIYEH FIROUZMAND and FATEMEH FARNIA
38. 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 LIFANG
40. The Moribito Series and its Relation to Trends in Japanese Children’s Literature
YASUKO DOI
41. Recent Trends and Themes in Malaysian Children's Fiction
SHARIFAH A. OSMAN, LAI SUAT YAN AND SITI ROHAINI KASSIM
42. Brazilian Literature for Children and Youth: Between the Reader and the Market
REGINA ZILBERMAN
43. Development of Literature for Children and Young People in Chile
MANUEL PEÑA MUÑOZ
44. Children’s and young adult literature in Guatemala: A Mirror Turned over the Wall
FRIEDA LILIANA MORALES BARCO
45. Breaking Illusions: Contradictory Representations of African Childhood
SHALINI NADASWARAN
46. Facing up to Reality: Recent Developments in South Africa’s English Literature for the Young
SANDRA STADLER
47. ‘I Do Yearn for Change, but I Am Afraid as Well’
An Analysis of Iranian Contemporary Young Adult Novels
MORTEZA KHOSRONEJAD, FATEMEH FARNIA, AND SOUDABEH SHOKROLLAHZADEH
Biography
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.
