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Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, this companion is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: literary theory around the world Section 1: Theoretical issues in International Children’s Literature Magical Realism in Latin American children's literature The unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts. Grounds for ‘rights reading’ practices Egyptian Children’s Literature: Ideology & Politics Animist materialism in YA dystopian fiction by Indigenous authors: an ecocritical reading The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice 5. Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: the Confucian tradition Violence and Death in Children’s and Young People’s Literature Section 2: Historical contexts and national identity Indigenous and juvenile: when books from villages arrive at bookstores The British Empire and Indian Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Historical Poems and The Land of Card Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean Children’s Stories postcolonialism and neo-colonialism (x1) The Paradoxical Negotiation of Coloniality and Postcoloniality in African Children’s Literature with Particular Reference to Zimbabwe ‘Imperial gospel’: the Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa Children's Literature in the GCC Arab States Section 3: Cross-cultural encounters Korean Picture Books, Imagology, and Narrative Modalities 13. Effects of globalization on development of subjectivity in YA fiction Ethno-racial relations and Brazilian- African children’s literature Notions of self and other among children of diasporic communities Section 4: Children’s texts and cultural forms Contemporary poetry for children and youth in Brazil Every Which Way: Direction and Narrative Time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash Series 14. Old/New Media for Muslim Children: The Forest, The Trees, and The Mushrooms Brazilian Children's Literature and Booklet Literature: approximations and distances New Media Chinese Children’s Literature Brazilian Children’s Literature in the Age of Digital Culture Children's book illustration in Colombia: notes for a history Section 5: Origins – Folktale and Traditional Story Folktales as signposts of cultural heritage Breaking and Making of Cross-Species Friendships in the Pancantantra Bal Hanuman and the Politics of Being a Superhero Animal Fiction in Chinese Children’s Literature The Centrality of Hawaiian Mythology in Three Genres of Hawai?i’s Contemporary Folk Literature for Children From Orality to Print: Construction of Nso Identity in Folk Tales. Section 6: Picture Books
