Overview
- Examines children’s literature beyond traditional Occidental hegemonic perspectives
- Focuses on the relationship between the written text, film, and animation in children’s stories
- Explores key themes such as the deconstruction of regional cultural and gender stereotypes, and depictions of cultural or gender expectations
Part of the book series: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English (APLE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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East
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Front Matter
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South and West
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Front Matter
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Southeast
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Front Matter
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Diaspora
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Keywords
- Children’s Literature and non Western Representations
- Asian Studies and Children's Literature and Art
- Border Crossings in Children’s Literature
- Regional Cultural Gender Stereotypes in Children's Literature
- Western/Colonial Influences on Asian Texts
- Asian Children’s Texts and Global Children’s Literature
- Multiculturalism and Global Children's Literature
- childhood studies
About this book
This volume provides a key analysis of Asian children’s literature and film and creates a dialogue between East and West and between the cultures from which they emerge, within the complex symbiosis of their local, national and transnational frameworks. In terms of location and content the book embraces a broad scope, including contributions related to the Asian-American diaspora, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan. Individually and collectively, these essays broach crucial questions: What elements of Asian literature and film make them distinctive, both within their own specific culture and within the broader Asian area? What aspects link them to these genres in other parts of the world? How have they represented and shaped the societies and cultures they inhabit? What moral codes do they address, underpin, or contest? The volume provides further voice to the increasingly diverse and fascinating output of the region and emphasises the importance of Asian art forms as depictions of specific cultures but also of their connection to broader themes in children’s texts, and scholarship within this field.
Reviews
“It was high time for this book, whose authors present Asian children’s literature and films as expressions of their specific cultures of origin, but also within the complex symbiosis of their local, national, transnational, global, and glocalized networks. … This volume has marked a beginning in challenging asymmetry in the field of literary criticism, shifting research to cultures of origin, dismantling Western Orientalist perspectives, and giving Asian children’s literature research the place on the global stage it deserves.” (Lucia Obi, A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol. 59 (3), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bernard Wilson is Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sacred Heart and Gakushuin University, Japan. He has researched and taught at universities in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, and specializes in postcolonial literature, children's literature, and cinema. He is widely published in Southeast Asian literature and East/West theory, and his work has appeared in leading international journals throughout the world.
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her recent book publications include Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South (co-edited, Routledge, 2016), Literature, Memory, Hegemony: East/West Crossings (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Making Heritage in Malaysia: Sites, Histories, Identities (edited, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). She is currently working on several projects, one of which is a monograph on diaspora and the novel in English of Malaysia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age
Book Subtitle: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories
Editors: Bernard Wilson, Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
Series Title: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2631-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2630-5Published: 08 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2633-6Published: 08 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2631-2Published: 06 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-7638
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7646
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 398
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Children's Literature, Asian Culture, Childhood, Adolescence and Society