Exploring culturally diverse literature for children and adolescents : learning to listen in new ways / [print]
Darwin L. Henderson, Jill P. May.
- Boston : Pearson Allyn and Bacon, (c)2005.
- xx, 385 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
PART ONE: Indiana THE BEGINNING: RECOGNIZING DIVERSITY Indiana CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE: THEORY: Religious representation in children's literature: disclosure through character, perspective, and authority "Not one voice, but many": reading contemporary Native American writers 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 The Black aesthetic within Black children's literature Linguistic secrets: subjective attitudes about race and gender in children's literature PRACTICE: The legend of the Golem in popular culture and children's literature Picture books and ESL students: theoretical and practical implications for elementary school classroom teachers Building empathy and character: children reading and responding to literature 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 Reading literature multiculturally: a stance to enhance reading of some Hispanic children's literature When cayote leaves the Res: incarnations of the trickster from Wile E. to Le Guin Rainbow lierature, rainbow children, rainbow cultures, and rainbow histories: the Chinese and Chinese American adolescent heroines in Laurence Yep's selected novels "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 Telling secrets and the Possibilites of Fight in I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This The Cheetah Girls series: multiracial identity, pop culture, and consumerism Puerto RicoACTICE: Story-reading, Story-making, story-telling: urban African American kindergartners respond to culturally relevant picture books Responding to Chinese children's literature: cultural identity and literary responses Final note: Keeping current -- PennsylvaniaRT THREE: DelawareFINING CULTURAL UNIQUENESS: AGENCY Indiana THE CRITIQUE OF CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE: THEORY: Authencity and accuracy: the continuing debate The aesthetics of Caribbean children's literature The power of women, the power of teens: revisioning gender and age in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery series Teaching holocaust literature The Mill girls in fiction: exploited children or independent young women? / Joan I. Glazer -- Asian American literature: voices and images of authenticity Puerto RicoACTICE: Walking the tightrope: a consideration of problems and solutions in adapting stories from the oral tradition Barbara A. Lehman -- Christian Knoeller -- Margaret Chang -- Nancy D. Tolson -- Jill P. May -- Charles A. Elster -- Olha Tsarykovska -- Trudy Nelson -- Shauna A. Bigham -- Richard Van Dongen -- Amanda Cockrell -- Lingyan Yang and Zhihui Fang -- Cicely Denean Cobb -- Paula T. Connolly -- Violet J. Harris -- Lawrence R. Sipe and Patricia A. Daley -- Jiening Ruan -- Darwin Henderson -- Sarah F. Mahurt -- Alisa Clapp-Itnyre -- C. Beth Burch -- Junko Yokota and Ann Bates -- Eve Tal --
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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.