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...
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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 heading subjectivity. Attention to the representation of subjectivity in literature enables us to consider how values are formed and changed, how emotions are cultivated, and how maturation is exper
SUBJECTIVITY IN ASIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND FILM Global Theories and Implications; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editor's Foreword; Naming Conventions; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Politics of Identity: A Transcultural Perspective on Subjectivity in Writing for Children; Chapter 2 Metamorphosis: The Emergence of Glocal Subjectivities in the Blend of Global, Local, East, and West; Chapter 3 The Muslima within American Children's Literature:Female Identity and Subjectivity in Novels about Pakistani-Muslim Characters
Chapter 4 Cooperation and Negotiation: Formation of Subjectivity in Japanese and Australian Picture BooksChapter 5 Subjectivity and Culture Consciousness in Chinese Children's Literature; Chapter 6 "How Can I Be the Protagonist of My Own Life?":Intimations of Hope for Teen Subjectivities in Korean Fiction and Film; Chapter 7 Contingent Subjectivity and Masculinity in Japanese Film for Young People; Chapter 8 Strong Is Beautiful: A Thai-Thai Happiness; Chapter 9 Subjectivity and Ethnicity in Vietnamese Folktales with Metamorphosed Heroes
Chapter 10 All Is Relative, Nothing Is Reliable: Inuyasha and Japanese SubjectivitiesChapter 11 Strategic Empowerment: A Study of Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian English Children's Fiction; Chapter 12 Subjectivity without Identity: Huang Chunming's Fiction in Postcolonial Vein; Chapter 13 Scrivener's Progeny: Writing the Subject; Contributors; Index;
