Japan and American children's books : a journey / Sybille A. Jagusch ; foreword by Carla D. Hayden ; introduction by J. Thomas Rimer.

"Japanese-American relations have been the object of considerable study from the 1850s, when Commodore Matthew Perry used gunboat diplomacy to break the seclusion of an island nation. Japan and American Children's Books: A Journey explores this relationship from a unique perspective, examining repre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jagusch, Sybille A. (Author)
Other Authors: Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952- (author of foreword.)
Rimer, J. Thomas (author of iintroduction.)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press in association with the Library of Congress, [2021]
Subjects:
Children's literature, American > History and criticism.
Japan > In literature.
Japanese in literature.
Japan > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Japan.
Children's literature, American.
International relations.
Literature.
Japan.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xviii, 364 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / J. Thomas Rimer
  • Note to the reader
  • Prologue: Japan in early books for children : from Comenius to Commodore Perry
  • From early children's books to the end of the nineteenth century. They went to Japan : the post-Perry travelers and their stories for the young
  • Fact and fiction : travelogues and adventure tales about Japan to the turn of the twentieth century
  • Takejiro Hasegawa : the foreigners' publisher
  • Japan in St. Nicholas magazine
  • The children's book writers and their information sources : from Marco Polo to Madame Chrysanthème
  • The twentieth century. Globetrotting in children's books : from 1900 to World War II
  • Louise Seaman Bechtel : America's first children's book editor and her books about Japan
  • The post-World War II years
  • Three Japanese American journeys
  • Into the twenty-first century
  • Appendix: The gatekeepers : leading American children's librarians and their influence on children's books about Japan.