Exploring culturally diverse literature for children and adolescents learning to listen in new ways - Henderson, Darwin L.; May, Jill P. (Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 American 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 --
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