Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature articles from December 2007

Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature archives from December 2007

Building cultural citizenship: multiculturalism and children's literature.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
December 1, 2007... 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...

The hegemony of Western categorisation and the underdevelopment of children's literature in 'other' worlds.(Report)
December 1, 2007... 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...

In the same boat: national identity and Taiwanese picture books.(Report)
December 1, 2007... 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...

Beyond dualism: towards interculturality in pictorialisations of Miyazawa Kenji's 'Snow Crossing' (Yukiwatari).
December 1, 2007... 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...

Cross-generational negotiations: Asian Australian picture books.(Report)
December 1, 2007... 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...

Embodying a racialised multiculturalism: strategic essentialism and lived Hybridities in Hoa Pham's no one like me.
December 1, 2007... 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...

'I don't like your kind of people': cultural pluralism in Odo Hirsch's have courage, Hazel Green.
December 1, 2007... 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...

Not quite white (enough): intersecting ethnic and gendered identities in looking for Alibrandi.
December 1, 2007... 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...

Children in detention: Juvenile authors recollect refugee stories.
December 1, 2007... 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...

Exploring issues of national identity, ideology and diversity in contemporary Canadian picture books.(Report)
December 1, 2007... 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...

News & Notices.(Brief article)(Calendar)
December 1, 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...