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In the same boat: national identity and Taiwanese picture books.(Report)
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Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature
- Article date:
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December 1, 2007
- Author:
- Huang, Hui-Ling
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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 (2001), Bradford (1995), and others. When a country is still struggling with its identity, the challenges facing children's publishers domestically and internationally tend to mirror the difficulties encountered on a national scale. This is particularly the case for a small country like Taiwan, an island which 23 million people call home.
Those who know Taiwan's ambiguous political situation ...