Exploring culturally diverse literature for children and adolescents : learning to listen in new ways / Darwin L. Henderson, Jill P. May.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, Darwin L.
Other Authors: May, Jill P.
Language:English
Published: Boston : Pearson Allyn and Bacon, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
Children > Books and reading > United States.
Teenagers > Books and reading > United States.
Children's literature > Study and teaching > United States.
Young adult literature > Study and teaching > United States.
Multiculturalism > Study and teaching > United States.
Cultural pluralism > Study and teaching > United States.
Physical Description:xx, 385 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • PART ONE: IN THE BEGINNING: RECOGNIZING DIVERSITY IN CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE: THEORY: Religious representation in children's literature: disclosure through character, perspective, and authority / Barbara A. Lehman
  • "Not one voice, but many": reading contemporary Native American writers / Christian Knoeller
  • Transforming "The crane wife": Western readings and renderings of "Tsuru-Nyobo" / April Komenaka
  • Daydreams of Cathay: images of China in modern American children's books / Margaret Chang
  • The Black aesthetic within Black children's literature / Nancy D. Tolson
  • Linguistic secrets: subjective attitudes about race and gender in children's literature / Jill P. May
  • PRACTICE: The legend of the Golem in popular culture and children's literature / Charles A. Elster
  • Picture books and ESL students: theoretical and practical implications for elementary school classroom teachers / Olha Tsarykovska
  • Building empathy and character: children reading and responding to literature / Trudy Nelson
  • Final note: Searching for materials to share
  • PART TWO: TOWARD A NEW PERSPECTIVE: LEARNING TO INTERPRET CULTURALLY DIVERSE LITERATURE: THEORY: African American short stories and the oral tradition / Shauna A. Bigham
  • Reading literature multiculturally: a stance to enhance reading of some Hispanic children's literature / Richard Van Dongen
  • When cayote leaves the Res: incarnations of the trickster from Wile E. to Le Guin / Amanda Cockrell
  • Rainbow lierature, rainbow children, rainbow cultures, and rainbow histories: the Chinese and Chinese American adolescent heroines in Laurence Yep's selected novels / Lingyan Yang and Zhihui Fang
  • "If you give a Nigger an inch, they will take an Ell": the role of education in Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle be Unbroken / Cicely Denean Cobb
  • Telling secrets and the Possibilites of Fight in I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This / Paula T. Connolly
  • The Cheetah Girls series: multiracial identity, pop culture, and consumerism / Violet J. Harris
  • PRACTICE: Story-reading, Story-making, story-telling: urban African American kindergartners respond to culturally relevant picture books / Lawrence R. Sipe and Patricia A. Daley
  • Responding to Chinese children's literature: cultural identity and literary responses / Jiening Ruan
  • Final note: Keeping current
  • PART THREE: DEFINING CULTURAL UNIQUENESS: AGENCY IN THE CRITIQUE OF CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE: THEORY: Authencity and accuracy: the continuing debate / Darwin Henderson
  • The aesthetics of Caribbean children's literature / Sarah F. Mahurt
  • The power of women, the power of teens: revisioning gender and age in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery series / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
  • Teaching holocaust literature / C. Beth Burch
  • The Mill girls in fiction: exploited children or independent young women? / Joan I. Glazer
  • Asian Americn literature: voices and images of authenticity / Junko Yokota and Ann Bates
  • PRACTICE: Walking the tightrope: a consideration of problems and solutions in adapting stories from the oral tradition / Eve Tal