Critical multicultural analysis of children's literature : mirrors, windows, and doors / Maria José Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botelho, Maria José, 1961- author.

Rudman, Masha Kabakow, author.

Contributor:

Routledge (Taylor & Francis eBooks)

Series:

Language, culture, and teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Young adult literature--History and criticism.

Young adult literature.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 352 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Critical multicultural analysis provides a philosophical shift for teaching literature, constructing curriculum, and taking up issues of diversity and social justice. It problematizes children's literature, offers a way of reading power, explores the complex web of sociopolitical relations, and deconstructs taken-for-granted assumptions about language, meaning, reading, and literature: It is literary study as sociopolitical change.

Bringing a critical lens to the study of multiculturalism in children's literature, this book invites teachers, teacher educators, and researchers of children's literature to analyze the ideological dimensions of reading and studying literature. Critical multicultural analysis offers mirrors for readers to locate themselves in text and image and unveils language use as reflections of power; provides windows or multiple views of society; and, through critical engagement with texts and their lived experiences, opens doors for readers to re-imagine and transform the world.

Each chapter includes recommendations for classroom application, classroom research, and further reading. Helpful end-of-book appendixes include a list of international, national, regional, and culturally specific children's book awards; lists of publishers, organized by conglomerates and small presses; diagrams of the power continuum and the theoretical framework of critical multicultural analysis; and lists of selected children's literature journals and online resources.

Contents:

The metaphors we read by: theoretical foundations

The historical construction of children's literature

Reading literacy narratives

Deconstructing multiculturalism in children's literature

Theorizing critical multicultural analysis of children's literature

Doors to the diaspora: the social construction of race

Leaving poverty behind: the social construction of class

Genres as social constructions: the intertextuality of children's literature

Cinderella: the social construction of gender

Shock of hair: the endurance of hair as a cultural theme in children's literature

Teaching critical multicultural analysis

Further dialogue with Mingshui Cai, Patrick Shannon, and Junko Yokota.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203885208

0203885201

Publisher Number:

99973314225

9780805837117

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.