Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age : Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories /: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bernard Wilson, Sharmani Patricia Gabriel.
• Editors: Wilson, Bernard; Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia
• Contents: Introduction.- Convergences, Crossings, Contestations: Children's Literature and Film in Asia.- Part I: East.- Children's Literature and Childhood Imagination in 1960s Taiwan: Jen-Mu Pan and the Discourse of 'Child Heart'.- Parents and Parent-Child Relationships in Contemporary Chinese Children's Literature (1978-2014).- SOCIETY IS A FAMILY: Social Exclusion and Social Dystopia in South Korean Films.- Family Diversity in Recent Japanese Children's Literature.- Mutilation, Metamorphosis, Transition, Transcendence: Revisiting Genderism and Transgenderism in The Little Mermaid through Gake no Ue no Ponyo.- Part II: South and West.- In the Shadows: Tracing Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema.- Engendering Identities: Gay and Lesbian Characters in Contemporary Indian English Young Adult Fiction.- The Demon as 'Other' in Sri Lankan Children's Literature: Rambukwella's Mythil's Secret and Asiri's Quest.- Towards a Poetics of Childhood Ethics in Abbas Kiarostami's Children's and Young Adult Films.- Part III: Southeast.- Folktale Adaptation and Female Agency: Reconfigurations of the Mahsuri Legend in Selected Contemporary Malaysian Young Adult Fiction.- Seeking 'Unity in Diversity': Contemporary Children's Books in Indonesia.- The Paradox of the Filipino Child: Realist Philippine Children's Stories (1990-2018).- Through Screens and Streams: Digital Liminality and Identities in Philippine Young Adult Speculative Fiction.- Part IV: Diaspora.- Symbiotic Cultural Landscapes: Retelling Chinese Folktales in Ed Young's Picture Books.- Hyphens, Hybrids and Bridges: Negotiating Third spaces in Asian-American Children's Literature.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (398 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Children's literature; Childhood; Adolescence; Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Children's Studies; Cultural studies; Age groups; Literary Criticism -- Children's Literature; Children's & teenage literature studies; Ethnology--Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811526312
• Related ISBNs: 9789811526305
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