The Routledge companion to international children's literature (Electronic book) / John Stephens

Part, I Concepts and theories -- chapter Introduction / John Stephens Celia Abicalil Belmiro Alice Curry Li Lifang Yasmine S. Motawy -- chapter 1 Globalization and glocalization / Anna Katrina Gutierrez -- chapter 2 The unhu literary gaze -- An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts / Cuthbeth Tagwirei -- chapter 3 Realism and magic in Latin American children’s books / Fanuel Hanán Díaz -- chapter 4 Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young -- The Confucian tradition / Lijun Bi -- chapter 5 Egyptian children’s literature -- Ideology and politics / Nadia El Kholy -- chapter 6 “The Trees, they have long memories” -- Animism and the ecocritical imagination in indigenous young adult fiction / Alice Curry -- chapter 7 Grounds for “rights reading” practices -- A view to children’s literature in Zimbabwe / Robert Muponde -- chapter 8 The construction of a modern child and a Chinese national character -- Translating Alice / Xu Xu -- chapter 9 Violence and death in Brazilian children’s and young adult literature / Alice Áurea Penteado Martha -- part, II Historical contexts and national identity -- chapter 10 Indigenous and juvenile -- When books from villages arrive at bookstores / Maria Inês de Almeida -- chapter 11 The British Empire and Indian nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s historical poems and The Land of Cards / Supriya Goswami -- chapter 12 “Breaking the mirror” -- Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean children’s stories / Aisha Spencer -- chapter 13 Postcoloniality, globalization, and transcultural production of children’s literature in postwar Taiwan / Andrea Mei-ying Wu -- chapter 14 The paradoxical negotiation of coloniality and postcoloniality in African children’s literature with particular reference to Zimbabwe / Mickias Musiyiwa -- chapter 15 “Imperial gospel”The Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa / Jaqueline S. du Toit -- chapter 16 Children’s literature in the GCC Arab states / Sabah Abdulkareem Aisawi Faraj Dughayyim Addhafeeri -- part, III Cultural forms and children’s texts -- chapter 17 Imagology, narrative modalities and Korean picture books / Sung-Ae Lee -- chapter 18 Ethnic-racial relations in literature for children and young people in Brazil / Celia Abicalil Belmiro Aracy Alves Martins -- chapter 19 The crucible -- Forging a hybrid identity in a multicultural world / Suchismita Banerjee -- chapter 20 Contemporary poetry for children and youth in Brazil / Maria Zélia Versiani Machado -- chapter 21 Every which way -- Direction and narrative time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash series / Iman Hamam -- chapter 22 Old/new media for Muslim children in English and Arabic -- The forest, the trees and the mushrooms / Yasmine Motawy -- chapter 23 Brazilian children’s literature and booklet literature -- Approximations and distances / José Hélder Pinheiro Alves -- chapter 24 Brazilian children’s literature in the age of digital culture / Edgar Roberto Kirchof -- part, IV Traditional story and adaptation -- chapter 25 “M’Riddle, M’Riddle, M’Yanday, O” -- Folktales of the Bahamas as signposts of heritage and as children’s literature / Patricia Glinton-Meicholas -- chapter 26 Breaking and making of cross-species friendships in the Panćatantra 1 / Lalita Pandit Hogan -- chapter 27 Child Hanuman and the politics of being a superhero / Anuja Madan -- chapter 28 Writing animal novels in Chinese children’s literature 1 / Ying Hou Aiping Nie -- chapter 29 The centrality of Hawaiian mythology in three genres of Hawai‘i’s contemporary folk literature for children / Stuart Ching Jann Pataray-Ching -- chapter 30 From orality to print -- Construction of Nso identity in folk tales / Vivian Yenika-Agbaw -- part, V Picture books across the majority world -- chapter 31 The granddaughters of Scheherazade / Bahia Shehab -- chapter 32 Children’s book illustration in Colombia -- Notes for a history / Silvia Castrillón -- chapter 33 The shôjo (girl) aesthetic in Japanese illustrated and picture books / Helen Kilpatrick -- chapter 34 “Light like a bird, not a feather” -- Science picture books from China and the USA / Fengxia Tan -- chapter 35 Illustrated books in ThailandFrom Mana-Manee to the eighty picture books project / Salinee Antarasena -- chapter 36 Early childhood literature in Brazil and Mexico -- Illustrated books for children aged 0 to 3 / Alma Carrasco Mônica Correia Baptista -- chapter 37 Conception and trends of Iranian picture books / Morteza Khosronejad Atiyeh Firouzmand Fatemeh Farnia -- chapter 38 Multimodal children’s books in Turkey -- Illustrated books and picture books / Ilgım Veryeri Alaca -- part, VI Trends in children’s and young adult literatures -- chapter 39 Recent trends and themes in realist Chinese children’s fiction / Li Lifang -- chapter 40 The Moribito series and its relation to trends in Japanese children’s literature 1 / Yasuko Doi -- chapter 41 Recent trends and themes in Malaysian children’s fiction / Sharifah A. Osman Lai Suat Yan Siti Rohaini Kassim -- chapter 42 Brazilian literature for children and youth -- Between the reader and the market / Regina Zilberman -- chapter 43 Development of literature for children and young people in Chile / Manuel Peña Muñoz Helen Satchwell -- chapter 44 Children’s and young adult literature in Guatemala -- A mirror turned over to face the wall / Frieda Liliana Morales Barco -- chapter 45 Breaking illusions -- Contradictory representations of African childhood / Shalini Nadaswaran -- chapter 46 Facing up to reality -- Recent developments in South Africa’s English literature for the young / Sandra Stadler -- chapter 47 “I do yearn for change, but I am afraid as well” -- An analysis of Iranian contemporary young adult novels / Morteza Khosronejad Fatemeh Farnia Soudabeh Shokrollahzadeh.