Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature
[Book]
:Mirrors, Windows, and Doors
/ Maria Jos'e Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman
New York
: Routledge
, 2009.
xxi, 352 p.
: , ill
(Language, Culture, and Teaching)
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The metaphors we read by: theoretical foundations - The historical construction of children's literature - Reading literacy narratives - Deconstructing multiculturalism in children's literature - Theorizing critical multicultural analysis of children's literature - Doors to the diaspora: the social construction of race - Leaving poverty behind: the social construction of class - Genres as social constructions: the intertextuality of children's literature - Cinderella: the social construction of gender - Shock of hair: the endurance of hair as a cultural theme in children's literature - Teaching critical multicultural analysis - Further dialogue with Mingshui Cai, Patrick Shannon, and Junko Yokota