PART I: Concepts and Theories 1. Globalization and Glocalization ANNA KATRINA GUTIERREZ 2. The unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children''s texts. CUTHBETH TAGWIREI 3. Realism and Magic in Latin American Children''s Books FANUEL HANÁN DIÁZ 4. Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: the Confucian tradition LIJUN BI 5. Egyptian Children''s Literature: Ideology & Politics NADIA EL KHOLY 6. "The Trees, they have long memories": Animism and the Ecocritical Imagination in Indigenous Young Adult Fiction ALICE CURRY 7.
Grounds for ''rights reading'' practices: A View to Children''s Literature in Zimbabwe ROBERT MUPONDE 8. The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice XU XU 9. Violence and Death in Brazilian Children''s and Young Adult Literature ALICE ÁUREA PENTEADO MARTHA PART II: Historical contexts and national identity 10. Indigenous and juvenile: when books from villages arrive at bookstores MARIA INÊS DE ALMEIDA 11. The British Empire and Indian Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore''s Historical Poems and The Land of Cards SUPRIYA GOSWAMI 12. "Breaking the Mirror": Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean Children''s Stories. AISHA SPENCER 13. Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Transcultural Production of Children''s Literature in Postwar Taiwan ANDREA MEI-YING WU 14.
The Paradoxical Negotiation of Coloniality and Postcoloniality in African Children''s Literature with Particular Reference to Zimbabwe MICKIAS MUSIYIWA 15. "Imperial gospel": the Afrikaans children''s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa JAQUELINE S. DU TOIT 16. Children''s Literature in the GCC Arab States SABAH ABDULKAREEM AISAWI and FARAJ DUGHAYYIM ALDHAFEERI PART III: Cultural Forms and Children''s Texts 17. Imagology, Narrative Modalities, and Korean Picture Books SUNG-AE LEE 18. Ethnic-Racial Relations in Literature for Children and Young People in Brazil CELIA ABICALIL BELMIRO and ARACY ALVES MARTINS 19. The Crucible: Forging a Hybrid Identity in a Multicultural World SUCHISMITA BANERJEE 20. Contemporary Poetry for Children and Youth in Brazil MARIA ZÉLIA VERSIANI MACHADO 21.
Every Which Way: Direction and Narrative Time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash Series IMAN HAMAM 22. Old/New Media for Muslim Children in English and Arabic: The Forest, the Trees, and the Mushrooms YASMINE MOTAWY 23. Brazilian Children''s Literature and Booklet Literature: Approximations and Distances JOSÉ HÉLDER PINHEIRO ALVES 24. Brazilian Children''s Literature in the Age of Digital Culture EDGAR ROBERTO KIRCHOF PART IV: Traditional Story and Adaptation 25. "M''Riddle, M''Riddle, M''Yanday, O": Folktales of The Bahamas as Signposts of Heritage and as Children''s Literature PATRICIA GLINTON-MEICHOLAS 26. Breaking and Making of Cross-Species Friendships in the Pancantantra LALITA PANDIT HOGAN 27. Child Hanuman and the Politics of Being a Superhero ANUJA MADAN 28. Writing Animal Novels in Chinese Children''s Literature HOU YING 29.
The Centrality of Hawaiian Mythology in Three Genres of Hawai¿i''s Contemporary Folk Literature for Children STUART CHING AND JANN PATARAY-CHING 30. From Orality to Print: Construction of Nso Identity in Folk Tales VIVIAN YENIKA-AGBAW PART V: Picture Books across the Majority World 31. The Granddaughters of Scheherazade BAHIA SHEHAB 32. Children''s Book Illustration in Colombia: Notes for a History SILVIA CASTRILLÓN 33. The Shôjo (girl) Aesthetic in Japanese Illustrated and Picture Books HELEN KILPATRICK 34. "Light like a Bird, Not a Feather": Science Picture Books from China and the USA FENGXIA TAN 35. Illustrated books in Thailand: From Mana-Manee to the 80 Picture Books Project SALINEE ANTARASENA 36. Early Childhood Literature in Brazil and Mexico.
Illustrated Books for Children 0-3 ALMA CARRASCO AND MÔNICA CORREIA BAPTISTA 37. Conception and Trends of Iranian Picture Books MORTEZA KHOSRONEJAD, ATIYEH FIROUZMAND and FATEMEH FARNIA 38. Multimodal Children''s Books in Turkey: Illustrated Books and Picturebooks ILGIM VERYERI ALACA PART VI: Trends in Children''s and Young Adult Literatures 39. Recent Trends and Themes in Realist Chinese Children''s Fiction LI LIFANG 40. The Moribito Series and its Relation to Trends in Japanese Children''s Literature YASUKO DOI 41. Recent Trends and Themes in Malaysian Children''s Fiction SHARIFAH A. OSMAN, LAI SUAT YAN AND SITI ROHAINI KASSIM 42. Brazilian Literature for Children and Youth: Between the Reader and the Market REGINA ZILBERMAN 43.
Development of Literature for Children and Young People in Chile MANUEL PEÑA MUÑOZ 44. Children''s and young adult literature in Guatemala: A Mirror Turned over the Wall FRIEDA LILIANA MORALES BARCO 45. Breaking Illusions: Contradictory Representations of African Childhood SHALINI NADASWARAN 46. Facing up to Reality: Recent Developments in South Africa''s English Literature for the Young SANDRA STADLER 47. ''I Do Yearn for Change, but I Am Afraid as Well'' An Analysis of Iranian Contemporary Young Adult Novels MORTEZA KHOSRONEJAD, FATEMEH FARNIA, AND SOUDABEH SHOKROLLAHZADEH.