Ethnic Literary Traditions In American Children's Literature: Latina

Esteemed contributors expand the range of possibilities for reading, understanding, and teaching children's literature as ethnic literature rather than children's literature in this ambitious collection. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Do Dick and Jane Still Live Here? Reading Children’s Literature as Ethnic Literature....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Listening to the Loon: On Finding the Ideas for My Books....Pages 11-15 Survival through Stories: An Introduction to Indian Literatures....Pages 17-28 Oral Narrative and Ojibwa Story Cycles in Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark House and Game of Silence....Pages 29-43 Alive and Well and Reclaiming Their Cultural Voice: Third Generation Native American Children’s Literature....Pages 45-61 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 The Cadence of Language: An Interview with Julius Lester....Pages 65-69 “Way Down in the Jungle Deep, the Lion Stepped on the Monkey’s Feet”: An Introduction to African American Literature....Pages 71-82 Trauma and National Identity in Haitian-American Young Adult Literature....Pages 83-97 For All My Children, or Approaching African American Children’s Picture Books....Pages 99-113 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 On Finding a Home....Pages 117-121 Foreigners Within: An Introduction to Asian American Literature....Pages 123-134 Acts of “Desicreation”: Urban Space and South Asian American Identity in Tanuja Desai Hidier’s Born Confused....Pages 135-145 Examining History: Representing War in Asian American Autobiographies for Children....Pages 147-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Writing on Violence and Healing for Young Audiences: An Interview with Rigoberto Gonzalez....Pages 165-169 Art, Activism and Community: An Introduction to Latina/o Literature....Pages 171-189 Conflicting Inclinations: Luis J. Rodríguez’s Picture Books for Children....Pages 191-204 Reading Trauma and Violence in U.S. Latina/o Children’s Literature....Pages 205-226 Back Matter....Pages 227-256 Essays examining children's literature as ethnic literature, including cultural nuances that are often misunderstood or overlooked NL-ZmNBD