Looking out and looking in
Subtitle: national identity in picturebooks of the New Millennium
By: edited by Åse Marie Ommundsen
Publisher: Novus Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9788270997244
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: National characteristics in literature; Picture books for children; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Åse Marie Ommundsen; title: Where is here? Landscape representations connected to local, national and regional identity. Iconic Australia in Alison Lester's Are We There Yet? / Åse Marie Ommundsen; title: Perspectives on nature in contemporary Arabic picturebooks / Sabah A. Aisawi; title: Insider, outsider relationships: considering the textual representation of Canadian identity / Erin Spring; title: Promoting ecoliteracy: the challenges of children's literature in the new millenium / Rui Ramos & Ana Margarida Ramos; title: Picturebooks used to build, rebuild or strengthen national identity. Breakout or bondage: the nationalization of Chinese picturebooks / Fengxia Tan; title: Tales of the King: building national identity in contemporary Norwegian picturebooks about the King / Åse Marie Ommundsen; title: 'It is forbidden to forbid': constructions of Frenchness through Revolution in three contemporary picturebooks / Clémentine Beauvais; title: Changing identities: from national to regional or global? Nationality in Finnish children's literature - from represetations of ethnic differences to representations of culturally diverse society / Jaana Pesonen; title: "Do I get to choose?" European picturebooks and the meaning of identity / Petros Panaou & Tasoula Tsilimeni; title: Questioning identities through war: representations of victimized children in contemporary picturebooks for young readers / Tzina Kalogirou & Vasso Economopoulou; title: National and European identity in six Faroese picturebooks / Anne-Kari Skarðhamar; title: Contemporary picturebooks in the Nordic countries. Concepts of literature and childood / Nina Christensen; title: About the contributors.