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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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