Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature

Herausgeber: Nelson, Claudia; Morris, Rebecca

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together children's literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. Wide-ranging and ambitious in its encouragement of communication between Chinese and American children's literature scholars, this collection is a model for examining how and why children's literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781472424211
• ISBN-10: 1472424212
• Artikelnr.: 44637086

Autorenporträt

Claudia Nelson is Professor of English and Rebecca Morris is completing her PhD in English at Texas A&M University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Claudia Nelson, Rebecca Morris; Section I Theorizing
Children's Literature: Journey as Metaphor and Motif; Chapter 1 Images of
Growth: Embodied Metaphors in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roberta
Seelinger Trites; Chapter 2 Identifying the "Motif" in a Country's Image of
Children: Research on Children's Issues in the Ming Dynasty, a Cultural
Critique and Interpretation of Formulated Developmental Strategies, Ban Ma,
Lin Aimei; Section II Chinese Children's Literature and the May Fourth
Movement; Chapter 3 On the Image of Children and the Three Stages of
Transformation in 100 Years of Chinese Children's Literature, Wang Quangen,
Jiang Qian; Chapter 4 The Originality of Lu Xun's Views of Children and
China's Modern Image of Children, Xu Yan, Chi Xin; Chapter 5 The Discovery
of Children: The Origins of Zhou Zuoren's Thoughts on "Humane Literature",
Zhu Ziqiang, Xu Derong; Section III Studies of American Authorship; Chapter
6 Love and Death in Clovernook: Alice Cary's Children of the Ohio Frontier,
Dennis Berthold; Chapter 7 Interpreting Elizabeth Foreman Lewis's Young Fu
of the Upper Yangtze, Kenneth Kidd; Chapter 8 Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles
of Prydain: Imaging the American Child through a British Lens, Robert
Boenig; Section IV A History of Didactic Children's Literature; Chapter 9
The Multiple Facets and Contemporary Mission of the Images of Children in
Chinese Children's Literature, Tang Sulan, Wang Xiaohui; Chapter 10 Images
of Children and Views of Children's Literature in Contemporary China, Chen
Hui, Chi Xin; Chapter 11 Children's Disposition and Children's Views, Cao
Wenxuan, Liang Hong; Chapter 12 Representing Boys and Girls in the 1912
Book of Knowledge, Claudia Nelson; Chapter 13 "Black and Beautiful and
Bruised Like Me": Contrasts and the Black Aesthetic in Picture Books of
Langston Hughes, Michelle H. Martin; Chapter 14 Remembering the Civil
Rights Movement in Photographic Texts for Children, Katharine Capshaw;
Section V Themes in Children's Literature; Chapter 15 Wimpy Boys and Spunky
Girls: Beverly Cleary's Template for the Gendered Child in Postwar American
Children's Literature, Claudia Mills; Chapter 16 The Commercial Cultural
Spirit and the Contemporary Image of Children: A Discussion of the Artistic
Innovation of China's Contemporary Children's Literature, Fang Weiping, Li
Jie; Chapter 17 Retelling the First World War as Alternate History and
Technological Fantasy in American Children's Literature, Lynne Vallone;
Chapter 18 Back to Basic Points and Seeking a Turning Point: The
Multidimensional Construction of Adolescent Identity in American Realistic
Novels for Young Adults, Tan Fengxia, Taoyang; Chapter 19 Coda, Mei Zihan,
Wang Chengcheng;