Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film by John Stephens - ISBN: 9780415806886
Hardcover
This book establishes the ground for a dialogue in children’s literature scholarship between East and West about subjectivity, selfhood, and identity. Essays explore the theoretical concerns of globalization, multi-culturalism, and glocalization and cover children’s literature and film in Japan, Ind…

Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film

Global Theories and Implications

  • Hardcover

    232 pages

  • Release Date

    17 September 2012

Summary

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 head…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780415806886
ISBN-10:0415806887
Author:John Stephens
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:Routledge
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:232
Release Date:17 September 2012
Weight:620g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
Series:Children's Literature and Culture
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Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award

About The Author

John Stephens

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

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