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SUBJECTIVITY IN ASIAN CHILDREN?S LITERATURE AND FILM IBD

ROUTLEDGE
09 / 2012
9780415806886
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Sinopsis

Winner of the ChildrenâÇÖs Literature Association Honor Book AwardThis volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in childrenâÇÖs literature scholarship. In all cultures, childrenâÇÖs 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 individualâÇÖs 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 experienced. Because subjectivities emerge in social contexts, they vary from place to place. This book brings together essays by scholars from several Asian countries - Japan, India, Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, and The Philippines -áto address subjectivities in fiction and film within frameworksáthat include social change, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, globalization, and glocalization. Few scholars of western childrenâÇÖs literature have a ready understanding of what subjectivity entails in childrenâÇÖs literature and film from Asian countries, especially where Buddhist or Confucian thought remains influential. This volume will impact scholarship and pedagogy both within the countries represented and in countries with established traditions in teaching and research, offering a major contribution to the flow of ideas between different academic and educational cultures.

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254,52