Subjectivity in Asian Children's Literature and Film

Global Theories and Implications
Herausgeber: Stephens, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Children's Literature Association Honor Book Award This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children's literature scholarship. In all cultures, children's literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of agency and the circumstances that frame an individual's decisions and capacities to make choices and act upon them. Such issues of selfhood fall under the heading subjectivity. Attention to the representation of subjectivity in literature enables us to consider how values are formed and changed, how emotions are cultivated, and how maturation is experienced. Because subjectivities emerge in social contexts, they vary from place to place. This book brings together essays by scholars from several Asian countries - Japan, India, Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, and The Philippines - to address subjectivities in fiction and film within frameworks that include social change, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, globalization, and glocalization. Few scholars of western children's literature have a ready understanding of what subjectivity entails in children's literature and film from Asian countries, especially where Buddhist or Confucian thought remains influential. This volume will impact scholarship and pedagogy both within the countries represented and in countries with established traditions in teaching and research, offering a major contribution to the flow of ideas between different academic and educational cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780415806886
• ISBN-10: 0415806887
• Artikelnr.: 35710380

Autorenporträt

John Stephens is Emeritus Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword 1. Introduction: The Politics of Identity: a
Transcultural Perspective on Subjectivity in Writing for Children John
Stephens 2. Metamorphosis: The Emergence of Glocal Subjectivities in the
Blend of Global, Local, East and West Anna Katrina Gutierrez 3. The Muslima
within American Children's Literature: Female Identity and Subjectivity in
Novels about Pakistani-Muslim Characters Seemi Aziz 4. Cooperation and
Negotiation-Formation of Subjectivity in Japanese and Australian Picture
Books Miyuki Hisaoka 5. Subjectivity and Culture Consciousness in Chinese
Children's Literature Lifang Li 6. "How Can I Be the Protagonist of My Own
Life?": Intimations of Hope for Teen Subjectivities in Korean Fiction and
Film Sung-Ae Lee 7. Contingent Subjectivity and Masculinity in Japanese
Film for Young People Christie Barber 8. Strong Is Beautiful: A Thai-Thai
Happiness Salinee Antarasena 9. Subjectivity and Ethnicity in Vietnamese
Folktales with Metamorphosed Heroes Tran Quynh Ngoc Bui 10. All is
Relative, Nothing is Reliable: Inuyasha and Japanese Subjectivities Mio
Bryce 11. Strategic empowerment: a study of subjectivity in contemporary
Indian English children's fiction Suchismita Banerjee 12. Subjectivity
without Identity: Huang Chunming's Fiction in Postcolonial Vein Suh Shan
Chen and Ming Cherng Duh 13. Scrivener's Progeny: Writing the Subject
Robyn McCallum