Recently added articles from Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature:

Building cultural citizenship: multiculturalism and children's literature.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)

Dec 01, 2007; Dudek, Debra ... In his influential book White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (1998), Ghassan Hage compares different versions of multiculturalism using an example from a children's book, The Stew that Grew by Michael and Rhonda Gray. The book presents an allegory of ...

The hegemony of Western categorisation and the underdevelopment of children's literature in 'other' worlds.(Report)

Dec 01, 2007; Duh, Ming Cherng ... This paper seeks to explore some problems relating to academic research in children's literature as faced by graduate students and scholars in Taiwan, to discuss the extent to which the development of children's literature in other countries may be dependent on Western modes of though, to ...

In the same boat: national identity and Taiwanese picture books.(Report)

Dec 01, 2007; Huang, Hui-Ling ... Diakiw (1997) argues that national literatures articulate cultural and national identities constructed over time. The study of how children's literature examines and reveals identity and shared values is not unusual as seen in the work of Bainbridge and Thistleton-Martin (2001), Meek ...

Beyond dualism: towards interculturality in pictorialisations of Miyazawa Kenji's 'Snow Crossing' (Yukiwatari).

Dec 01, 2007; Kilpatrick, Helen ... Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most renowned authors and his many children's stories (dowa) represent a Buddho-animist quest for a more integrated cosmos. In his desire for this kind of holism, Kenji was largely writing against all the forms of scientific rationalism that, by ...

Cross-generational negotiations: Asian Australian picture books.(Report)

Dec 01, 2007; Bradford, Clare ... Children's texts habitually hinge upon narratives of growth and development, modelling to their readers how children and young people become autonomous and other-regarding individuals. In Australian literature for children these narratives of development are often inflected by the cultural ...

Embodying a racialised multiculturalism: strategic essentialism and lived Hybridities in Hoa Pham's no one like me.

Dec 01, 2007; Dudek, Debra ... Hoa Pham's writing crosses the genres of junior, young adult, and adult fiction. She has written two short novels for beginning readers of English, Forty-Nine Ghosts (1998) and No One Like Me (1998), a full-length young adult novel, Quicksilver (1998), and an adult novel Vixen (2000). For ...

'I don't like your kind of people': cultural pluralism in Odo Hirsch's have courage, Hazel Green.

Dec 01, 2007; Pennell, Beverley ... As the twentieth century progressed, 'ethnicity' as much as 'race' became an issue that confronted national myths of social homogeneity. Global movements of people, especially post-World War II, unsettled the link between nation and race and/or ethnicity in ways that challenged traditional ...

Not quite white (enough): intersecting ethnic and gendered identities in looking for Alibrandi.

Dec 01, 2007; McInally, Kathryn ... That Melina Marchetta's young adult novel Looking for Alibrandi (1992) remains one of the highest selling Australian Young Adult novels suggests the ease with which migrant identities are accepted and even celebrated in contemporary Australian culture. Teenage girls from a broad ...

Children in detention: Juvenile authors recollect refugee stories.

Dec 01, 2007; Helff, Sissy ... In the last thirty years or so, one of the most swiftly growing areas in children's literature is fiction and autobiographical writing, dealing with the past and present of young people, who are deprived of their homes and ambivalently caught between cultures.1 Yet, events such as the ...

Exploring issues of national identity, ideology and diversity in contemporary Canadian picture books.(Report)

Dec 01, 2007; Johnston, Ingrid ... Picture books are one of the first points of contact for children to interact with verbal and visual representations of national identity and they can be an ongoing medium for literary engagement throughout children's schooling. Contemporary picture books appeal to a range of readers, and ...

News & Notices.(Brief article)(Calendar)

Dec 01, 2007 ... 'Other Worlds in Children's Literature: Fantasy, Reality and Imagination' 8th International Conference of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR). Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 27-29 June 2008 For further ...