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Title (Mis)reading different cultures : interpreting international children's literature from Asia / edited by Yukari Takimoto Amos and Daniel Miles Amos
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Foreword: the danger of cultural de-contextualization in studying diversity through literature / Geneva Gay -- Preparing our students for the "right" future: using children's literature to promote cultural understanding / Kathy Brashears -- Authenticity: in the eye of the beholder? / Sharryn Larsen Walker -- Cultural differences, interpretations, and power / Yukari Takimoto Amos -- The cultural battle between East and West: Chinese Mulan meets Disney's Mulan / Annie Yen Ning Yang -- Remembering the dark past: stories of the Korean War and Korean immigration in American children's literature / Chong Eun Ahn -- Reading with cultural empathy: why is it difficult? / Yukari Takimoto Amos -- Reading analytically and feeling connected: when Indonesian preservice teachers read foreign stories from China, Iraq, and the U.S. / Tati Lathipatud Durriyah
Summary "The book provides relevant theoretical and empirical research findings to address the challenges teachers face when interpreting and teaching with international children's literature from Asia. Strategies are provided relating to how teachers can be more culturally conscious of their own biases and develop culturally appropriate interpretations"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Children's literature, Oriental -- History and criticism
Children's literature, Oriental -- Study and teaching
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Children's literature, Oriental
Children's literature
Oriental literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Amos, Yukari Takimoto, editor
Amos, Daniel Miles, editor
LC no. 2018045303
ISBN 9781475836912
1475836910