Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Nelson, Claudia; Morris, Rebecca

• Format: ePub

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. The volume's five sections highlight the differences between and overlapping concerns of Chinese and American scholars, as they examine children's literature with respect to cultural metaphors and motifs, historical movements, authorship, didacticism, important themes, and the current status of and future directions for literature and criticism. Wide-ranging and admirably ambitious in its encouragement of communication between scholars from two major nations, Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature serves as a model for examining how and why children's literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317065975
• Artikelnr.: 44876070

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;