Ann González

Postcolonial Approaches to Latin American Children's Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today. By analyzing a variety of texts written, adapted, or marketed expressly for Spanish-speaking children, it examines how children's literature approaches the Spanish American colonial and postcolonial experience and communicate

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780367592974
• ISBN-10: 0367592975
• Artikelnr.: 69892340

Autorenporträt

Ann B. González is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I. The Problem of the Double Bind 1. Vallejo's Paco
Yunque and the Logic of Coloniality 2. The History of the Popol Vuh for
Children: From Appropriation to Reinscription of the Mayan World View Part
II. Resistance Strategies 3. Rebellion and The Right to Play 4. Covert
Resistance 5. Syncretism 6. Hybridity 7. Reinscribing the Past: Chang Marín
and the History of Panamá Part III. Ambivalence 8. To Remember or Forget:
Claribel Alegría 9. To Obey or Resist: Horacio Quiroga Conclusion: Escaping
the Double Bind