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Exploring Culturally Diverse Literature for Children and Adolescents: Learning to Listen in New Ways, MyLabSchool Edition

By Darwin L. Henderson, Jill P. May

ISBN-10: 0-205-46461-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-205-46461-6What's this?

Published by Allyn & Bacon

© 2005

Pub. Date: Dec 23, 2004

Format: Paper Bound with PIN

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This collection of original essays concentrates on the meaning of cultural aesthetics in children's and adolescent literature and uniquely tackles the particular issues teachers face today. Discusses beginning literary patterns of a particular group, stereotypic representations of American cultures, imagery in American adolescent and children's literature, and issues of literary inclusion. Theory and practice come together throughout the three sections of the text.

Table of Contents

Each chapter begins with “Introduction.”

Introduction.

Acknowledgements.

Dedication.

1. In the Beginning: Recognizing diversity in children's and adolescent literature.

“Learning to Speak Again.”

Theory.

Barbara Lehman: Religious Representation in Children's Literature: Disclosure through Character, Perspective, and Authority.

Christian Knoeller: “Not One Voice, But Many”: Reading Contemporary Native American Writers.

April Komenaka: Transforming “The Crane Wife”; Western Readings and Renderings of the Tsuru-Nyobo.

Margaret Chang: Daydreams of Cathay: Images of China in Modern American Children's Books.

Nancy Tolson: The Black Aesthetic within Black Children's Literature.

Jill P. May: Racial Complexities and Linguistic Secrets: Bridging the Codes of Children's Classics.

Practice.

Charles Elster: The Legend of the Golem in Children's Literature: Jewish and Universal Themes.

Olha Tsarkovska: Picture Books and ESL Students: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Elementary School Classroom Teachers.

Trudy Nelson: Building Empathy and Character: Children Reading and Responding to Literature.

Final Note: Searching for Material to Share.

2. Toward a New Perspective: Learning to interpret culturally diverse literature.

“Linguists Gather in the American West.”

Shauna Bigham: African-American Short Stories and the Oral Tradition.

Richard Van Dongen: Reading Literature Multiculturally: A Stance to Enhance Reading of Some Hispanic Children's Literature.

Amanda Cockrell: When Coyote Leaves the Res: Incarnations of the Trickster from Wile E. To LeGuin.

Lingyan Yang and Zhihui Fang: Rainbow Literature, Rainbow Children, Rainbow Cultures and Rainbow Histories: The Chinese and Chinese American Adolescent Heroines in Laurence Yep's Immigrant Novels and Historical Novels.

Cecily D. Cobb: “If You Give a Nigger an Inch, They Will Take an Ell”: The Role of Education in Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken.

Paula Connolly: Telling Secrets and Possibilities of Flight in I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This.

Violet Harris: The Cheetah Girls Series: Multiracial Identity, Pop Culture and Consumerism.

Practice.

Larry Sipe and Pat Daley: Story-reading, Story-making, Story-Telling: Urban African-American Kindergartners Respond to Culturally Relevant Picturebooks.

Jiening Ruan: Responding to Chinese Children's Literature: Cultural Identity and Literary Responses.

Final Note: Keeping Current.

3. Defining Cultural Uniqueness: Agency in the critique of children's and adolescent literature.

“What History Asks.”

Theory.

Darwin L. Henderson: Authenticity and Accuracy: The Continuing Debate.

Sarah Mahurt: The Aesthetics of Caribbean Children's Literature.

Alisa Clapp-Intyre: The Power of Womenm, the Power of Teens: Re-visioning Gender and Age in the Nancy Drew And Hardy Boys Mystery Series.

C. Beth Burch: Teaching Holocaust Literature.

Joan Glazer: The Mill Girls in Fiction: Exploited Children or Independent Young Women?

Junko Yokota and Ann Bates: Asian American Literature: Voices and Images of Authenticity.

Practice.

Eve Tal: Walking the Tightrope: A Consideration of Problems and Solutions in Adapting from the Oral Tradition.

Lois Campbell: Students' Construction of Knowledge about Native Americans with Children's Literature.

Leslie Murrill: Do Young Children Need Happy Endings?

Final Note: Continuing Our Conversations.

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