The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature

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Table of contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
	Ethnopoetics and local pressures: China and Iran
	Children’s literature in Africa and the Caribbean
	Perceiving and erasing borders: understanding children’s literature in Latin America
	Bibliography
Part I Concepts and theories
	1 Globalization and glocalization
		Global-glocal imaginaries
		Glocalizing subjectivity
		Cross-cultural reconfigurations: Introducing non-Western perspectives
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	2 The unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts
		Defining the unhu literary gaze in respect to children’s literature
			Postulate one: The hero/ine is a link in the chain of human communion
			Postulate two: Differences are resolved through recognition of a common humanity
			Postulate three: Community, and not self-determination, is the critical feature of humanness
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	3 Realism and magic in Latin American children’s books
		Where does magic come from?
		Magical realism in Latin American children’s literature
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	4 Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: The Confucian tradition
		Introduction: the Confucian tradition
		Before 1911: Filial piety to parents, loyalty to emperor
		From 1911 to 1949: Educate children, save the nation
		From 1949 to 1976: Gratitude to the Party, devotion to Chairman Mao
		From 1976 to 2000: Love money, love China
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
	5 Egyptian children’s literature: Ideology and politics
		Arabic children’s literature
			Heroism as ideology in Arab children’s literature
			Types of heroes
			Conclusion
		Bibliography
	6 “The Trees, they have long memories”: Animism and the ecocritical imagination in indigenous young adult fiction
		Ecopoiesis: animist materialism and spirit
		Autopoiesis: animic ontology and embodiment
		Poiesis: poet-shaman aesthetics and language
		Conclusion: social and environmental wellbeing
		Bibliography
	7 Grounds for “rights reading” practices: A view to children’s literature in Zimbabwe
		Introduction
		What’s in a drought? Contexts for rights reading
		Community, difference and voice
		The symbolic and practical meanings of the WELL
		Possibilities occluded by the WELL
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	8 The construction of a modern child and a Chinese national character: Translating Alice
		Inventing the Chinese national character
		May Fourth imagination of a modern child
		The child as the model citizen
		Bibliography
	9 Violence and death in Brazilian children’s and young adult literature
		Bibliography
Part II Historical contexts and national identity
	10 Indigenous and juvenile: When books from villages arrive at bookstores
		Indigenous authors and writing procedures
		Notes
		Bibliography
	11 The British Empire and Indian nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s historical poems and The Land of Cards
		Historical context and the poems from the 1890s
		In a land of cards
		Notes
		Bibliography
	12 “Breaking the mirror”: Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural  ...
		Note
		Bibliography
	13 Postcoloniality, globalization, and transcultural production of children’s literature in postwar Taiwan
		Ertong duwu bianji xiaozu as a site for transcultural practice
		Americanization and the production of children’s  literature in Taiwan: colonial or transcultural?
		Transcultural literary production: I Want a Big Rooster  and Little Duckling Gets Back Home
		Notes
		Bibliography
	14 The paradoxical negotiation of coloniality and postcoloniality in African children’s literature with particular reference to Zimbabwe
		Introduction
		Theorizing and defining the African creative process
		The rise of modern African children’s literature
		A Zimbabwean case study
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	15 “Imperial gospel”
The Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa
		The story of Joseph
		Idealized womanhood
		Concluding remarks
		Notes
		Bibliography
	16 Children’s literature in the GCC Arab states
		Children’s stories
		Children’s poetry
		Children’s theatre
		Children’s press
		Children’s TV programs and satellite channels
		The internet, apps and games
		Illustration
		Young adult literature
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part III Cultural forms and children’s texts
	17 Imagology, narrative modalities and Korean picture books
		Notes
		Bibliography
	18 Ethnic-racial relations in literature for children and young people in Brazil
		Introduction
		Images of black people
		Ethnic-racial relations in works of children’s and young readers’ literature
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	19 The crucible: Forging a hybrid identity in a multicultural world
		Whose identity is it anyway? The essentialist trap
		Notions of nativeness: the role of the grandparent in fashioning a native identity
		Hybridity and agency
		Power play: influence of dominant culture in framing and validating markers of identity
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	20 Contemporary poetry for children and youth in Brazil
		Multiple targets of “child-youth” poetry
		Poetry and the formation of readers in Brazil: a brief recount of a short history
		Poets who led the way
		Some trends in Brazilian contemporary poetry for children
		Some trends in Brazilian contemporary poetry for youth
		The poetry genre and public policy regarding the formation of readers in Brazil
		Notes
		Bibliography
	21 Every which way: Direction and narrative time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash series
		Bibliography
	22 Old/new media for Muslim children in English and Arabic: The forest, the trees and the mushrooms
		Mainstreaming Muslims
		What a Muslim does
			Authority
			Simplification
		Storytelling: a rare forest
		Bibliography
	23 Brazilian children’s literature and booklet literature: Approximations and distances
		Oral literature: diversity of topics
		At the time the animals talked: string booklets of yesterday and now
		Children’s literature, booklet literature
		Final considerations
		Note
		Bibliography
	24 Brazilian children’s literature in the age of digital culture
		Children’s digital poetry
		Digital narrative for children
		New scenarios for children’s literature
		Bibliography
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
		Origins of the Bahamian ol’ story
		Functions of the Bahamian folktale
		Ol’ story: setting, character, plot, theme and style
		Signposts of African and diasporic kinship
		Ol’ story as children’s literature
		Notes
		Bibliography
	26 Breaking and making of cross-species friendships in the Panćatantra
		Panćatantra: Roots, branches and time travel in brief
		Being human and being animal: Tantra as secret knowledge
		Why the lion killed the bull: vulnerability of cross-species friendship
		How the crow became friends with the mouse: affiliation and attachment
		Note
		Bibliography
	27 Child Hanuman and the politics of being a superhero
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	28 Writing animal novels in Chinese children’s literature
		Animal stories to inspire humans
		Animal fantasy: between human-centeredness and animal-centeredness
		Animal legends: to see the world as an animal sees it
			Case study: Shen Shixi
		Representing the inner life of animals
		Conclusion
		Note
		Bibliography
	29 The centrality of Hawaiian mythology in three genres of Hawai‘i’s contemporary folk literature for children
		Conceptualizing Hawai‘i’s folklore within histories of empire and globalization
		Hawaiian mythology and legends
		Local identity and stories
		Touristic paradisiacal Hawai‘i
		Issues of authenticity
		Conclusion: the centrality of Hawaiian mythology
		Bibliography
	30 From orality to print: Construction of Nso identity in folk tales
		Orality and Africa
		Folk Tales of Nso and Tales of Nso: an analysis of Wanyeto tales
		Cover design
		Verbal text: folk tales of Nso
		Verbal text: Tales of Nso
		Visual texts in all three editions
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part V Picture books across the majority world
	31 The granddaughters of Scheherazade
		Notes
		Bibliography
	32 Children’s book illustration in Colombia: Notes for a history
		The collections of Editorial Norma
		Note
		Bibliography
	33 The shôjo (girl) aesthetic in Japanese illustrated and picture books
		Note
		Bibliography
	34 “Light like a bird, not a feather”: Science picture books from China and the USA
		Intertwined multiple spectra
		The infiltration of humanistic feelings
		Fun in exploration
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	35 Illustrated books in Thailand
From Mana-Manee to the eighty picture books project
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	36 Early childhood literature in Brazil and Mexico: Illustrated books for children aged 0 to 3
		Analysed corpus
		Characteristics of the literary collections for early childhood in Brazil and Mexico
			Prose texts
			Poetry texts
			Folk lyric and tradition
			Stories narrated with images
		A change of perspective on children
		Notes
		Bibliography
	37 Conception and trends of Iranian picture books
		Major trends in the verbal narratives of Iranian picture books
		Major trends in the illustrations of Iranian picture books
		Child-centered and adult-centered attitudes
		Word-centered, picture-centered and holistic attitudes
		Major critical and theoretical trends in studies of Iranian picture books
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	38 Multimodal children’s books in Turkey: Illustrated books and picture books
		The role of institutions in making picturebooks
		The frontiers of children’s books in Turkey
		Adaptation as genre and the European influence: Who would be Afraid of Red Riding Hood?
		Folk tales, riddles and rhymes
		Conclusion
		Note
		Bibliography
Part VI Trends in children’s and young adult literatures
	39 Recent trends and themes in realist Chinese children’s fiction
		Realist writing – universally acknowledged by children.
		Realist “problem” fiction
		Bibliography
	40 The Moribito series and its relation to trends in Japanese children’s literature
		The Moribito series as part of Japanese YA and children’s literature
		Japanese fantasy writers
		YA literature, fictional realism and the Moribito series
		The porous border between children’s literature and adult fiction
			Fan fiction and other media
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	41 Recent trends and themes in Malaysian children’s fiction
		A historical overview of children’s literature in Malaysia
			Children’s literature in Malay
			Children’s literature in English
		Popular folktales, myths and legends in Malaysian children’s literature in English: three case studies
		Revisionary tales of feminine identity of the Malays from Perak and the indigenous peoples from Sabah and Sarawak
			On woman’s terms
			Expansion of the female subject position in non-traditional domains
			The power and agency of the wise and respected female figure
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Note
		Bibliography
	42 Brazilian literature for children and youth: Between the reader and the market
		The first century
		The modernization of the book and the modernity of children’s literature
		A new start, a post-modern end
		Note
		Bibliography
	43 Development of literature for children and young people in Chile
		Classics of Chilean children’s literature
		Recent trends
		Social realism
		Politics, society and children’s literature
		New authors
		Children’s poetry
		Children’s poetry and digital animation
		Historical reconstruction
		Humor
		The epic fantasy
		The graphic novel
		Development of children’s literature
		Specialized publishers
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	44 Children’s and young adult literature in Guatemala: A mirror turned over to face the wall
		Reading and the national education system
		New models and the emergence of children’s literature
		Guatemala’s “Democratic Spring”
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	45 Breaking illusions: Contradictory representations of African childhood
		Children as commodities
		Children as victims of war
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	46 Facing up to reality: Recent developments in South Africa’s English literature for the young
		New contents
		(New) politics of publishing
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	47 “I do yearn for change, but I am afraid as well”: An analysis of Iranian contemporary young adult novels
		Subjects and themes of Iranian YA novels
		Mythical and epic themes
		War themes
		Theme of love
		Girls’ and women’s roles
		Subjects, themes and issues of the middle class
		“Null” subjects and themes
		Genres
		Stylistic techniques
		Pitfalls and concerns
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index