Multicultural literature for children and young adults reflections on critical issues
Title:
Multicultural literature for children and young adults reflections on critical issues
Author:
Cai, Mingshui.
ISBN:
9780313076404
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 200 p.) : ill.
Series:
Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 116
Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 116.
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Issues Related to the Concept of Multicultural Literature; 1. Defining Multicultural Literature; 2 . Classifying Multicultural Literature; Part II: Issues Related to the Creation and Critique of Multicultural Literature; 3 . Imagination, Ethnicity, and Cultural Authenticity; 4 . Reader Response Theory and the Author's Role in Multicultural Literature; 5 . Stereotyping and the Politics of Representation; 6 . Cultural Correctness and the Evaluation of Multicultural Literature.
Abstract:
There is much discussion of multiculturalism in education. This is especially true of multicultural literature for children and young adults. The rise of multicultural literature is a political rather than a literary movement; it is a movement to claim space in literature and in education for historically marginalized social groups rather than one to renovate the craft of literature itself. Multicultural literature has been closely bound with the cause of multiculturalism in general and thus has been confronted with resistance from conservatives. This book discusses many of the controversial i.
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