Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Postcolonial Approaches to Latin American Children’s Literature
Author: Ann GonzálezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317299671
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. Central to this study is the argument that the historical constraints of colonialism, neocolonialism, and postcolonialism have generated certain repeating themes and literary strategies in children’s literature throughout the Spanish-speaking Americas. From the outset of Spanish domination, fundamental tensions emerged between the colonizers and native groups that still exist to this day. Rather than a felicitous mixing of these two opposing groups, the mestizo is caught between contrasting worldviews, contending explanations of reality, and different values, beliefs, and epistemologies (that is, different ways of seeing and knowing). Postcolonial subjects experience these contending cultural beliefs and practices as a double bind, a no-win situation, in which they feel pressured by mutually exclusive expectations and imperatives. Latin American mestizos, therefore, are inevitably conflicted. Despite the vastness of the geography in question and the innumerable variations in regional histories, oral traditions, and natural settings, these contradictory demands create a pervasive dynamic that penetrates the very fabric of society, showing up intentionally or not in the stories passed from generation to generation as well as in new stories written or adapted for Spanish-speaking children. The goal of this study, therefore, is to examine a variety of children’s texts from the region to determine how national and hemispheric perceptions of reality, identity, and values are passed to the next generation. This book will appeal to scholars in the fields of Latin American literary and cultural studies, children’s literature, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature.
National Union Catalog
Author: Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
LEV
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : es
Pages : 2142
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Benson Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Children's Books in Print, 2007
Author: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, ... Catalog of Books
Author: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature: Smad-Zwer, index
Author: Jack ZipesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
For much of its history, children's literature has been overlooked or looked down on by scholars. But in recent years children's literature has assumed greater importance, as literary critics, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians have begun to discover what children and parents have known for centuries: that this is a literature of extraordinary richness, depth, and delight. The Encyclopedia captures and elucidates this richness in four volumes and 3,200 signed entries. It offers comprehensive coverage of children's literature, from medieval chapbooks of moral instruction for children to J. K. Rowling's immensely popular Harry Potter books. Unlike other references, the Encyclopedia not only documents but also interprets every work, major and minor, that has played a role in the history of children's literature in the world. General essays illuminate prominent trends, themes, genres, and the traditions of children's literature in many countries. In addition, the Encyclopedia provides biographies of important writers, as well as extensive coverage of illustrators with numerous examples of their work. Sociocultural developments such as the impact of toys, films, animation, the Internet, literacy, libraries and librarians, censorship, the multicultural expansion of the field, and other issues related to the appreciation and dissemination of children's literature are also addressed. While the Encyclopedia concentrates on the tradition known best by its readership, it also covers the international development of children's literature and offers an unprecedented treatment of works from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, African countries, and other nations. Its over 800 distinguished contributors come from around the world and include such renowned scholars and writers as Gillian Avery, Peter Hunt, Klaus Doderer, Hansa Heino Ewers, Jean Perrot, Denise Escarpit, Brian Alderson, and Betsy Gould Hearne. A-Z organization, accessible writing, plentiful illustrations, cross-references, bibliographies, a comprehensive index and a systematic outline make the Encyclopedia an invaluable and easy-to-use research reference.
Libro Americano
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : es
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Includes section "Books received in the Columbus Memorial Library".