Die Analyse und Vermittlung von literarischen Texten des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts birgt Potenziale im Hinblick auf den Umgang mit Diversität, Zugehörigkeit und Ausgrenzung. Die Beiträger*innen fragen ...danach, wie kulturelle Vielfalt in der musealen sowie der literaturwissenschaftlichen Praxis zu kritischen Reflexionen und zu neuen Perspektiven auf kanonisierte Gegenstände führt. Im Zentrum steht dabei das Interesse an den Optionen der Darstellung von Diversität im Literaturmuseum und in der Literaturwissenschaft. Der Band führt theoretische und praktische Zugriffe zusammen und arbeitet somit auch an einer methodisch-theoretischen Vielfalt.
In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. In Represent and Destroy, Jodi Melamed portrays the postwar racial break ...as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity in which racial violence works normatively by policing representations of difference.
Children's literature is ubiquitous in Australian classrooms with picture books playing a particularly important role in early childhood classrooms. Teachers use children's literature to teach early ...literacy concepts including vocabulary and to help children learn about the world and their identity. Historically, the majority of children's literature has featured White characters and perspectives, excluding many children from seeing themselves and their lives reflected in books. The aim of this study was to explore how an assessment task that asked preservice teachers (PSTs) to select an underrepresented aspect of children's literature, locate books on that topic, and reflect upon their own reading experiences as a child, could change their attitudes towards future classroom practice. Reflections from 40 PSTs revealed that many PSTs had not previously considered the experiences of children whose lives were not mirrored in books, the need for authentic texts written by people who identified as members of diverse groups, or the importance of diversity in children's literature. Recommendations for teacher education programs in increasingly multicultural Australia are discussed.
Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of
U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms by Wen Jin is an extended
comparison of U.S. and Chinese multiculturalisms during the
post-Cold War era. ...Her book situates itself at the intersection of
Asian American literary critique and the growing field of
comparative multiculturalism. Through readings of fictional
narratives that address the issue of racial and ethnic difference
in both national contexts simultaneously, the author models a
"double critique" framework for U.S.-Chinese comparative literary
studies.
The book approaches U.S. liberal multiculturalism and China's
ethnic policy as two competing multiculturalisms, one grounded
primarily in a history of racial desegregation and the other in the
legacies of a socialist revolution. Since the end of the Cold War,
the two multiculturalisms have increasingly been brought into
contact through translation and other forms of mediation.
Pluralist Universalism demonstrates that a number of
fictional narratives, including those commonly classified as
Chinese, American, and Chinese American, have illuminated
incongruities and connections between the ethno-racial politics of
the two nations. The "double critique" framework builds upon
critical perspectives developed in Asian American studies and
adjacent fields. The book brings to life an innovative vision of
Asian American literary critique, even as it offers a unique
intervention in ideas of ethnicity and race prevailing in both
China and the United States in the post-Cold War era.
À un moment où la question du contact entre les cultures est appelée à prendre une place prépondérante dans nos sociétés, ce volume s’attache à définir les modalités du dialogue entre l’Ici et ...l’Ailleurs, en examinant le rôle joué par la traduction dans le transfert d’images en littérature. Les articles qui constituent ce volume s’attachent à analyser la façon dont la traduction contribue aux échanges transculturels ou, au contraire, les entrave. Comment s’établit la communication entre l’écrivain et le lecteur par le prisme de la traduction ? Quel reflet (déformant ?) la traduction produit-elle et comment s’effectue le dialogue interculturel engagé par ce processus ? Ces questions, et bien d’autres, sont examinées sous des angles variés, que ce soit sur le plan théorique, linguistique, stylistique ou encore philosophique, ou bien au niveau des aires géographiques et des langues étudiées (anglais, chinois, espagnol, français, italien, roumain, russe, vietnamien, etc.). Les thématiques qui traversent ce champ d’investigation sont multiples et croisées. Les études portent ainsi sur les dimensions proprement culturelles de l’image, tant au sein d’œuvres classiques que dans la littérature de jeunesse, mais aussi sur les traductions-relais ainsi que sur l’hétérolinguisme constitutif de certaines oeuvres, qu’il s’agisse d’un idiome étranger ou d’une variété de la langue principale. Les métaphores ne sont pas oubliées, ni le traducteur lui-même, que ce soit au niveau de la collaboration traductive, de l’horizon traductif du sujet traduisant ou de l’auto-traduction. Enfin, une place est faite à la poétique et au processus créatif. Par une approche scientifique et réaliste de la traduction, qui s’efforce d’articuler théorie et pratique par l’utilisation de corpus abondants et variés, cet ouvrage saura séduire tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la réflexion sur la traduction et aux études transculturelles.
Children's literature is ubiquitous in Australian classrooms with picture books playing a particularly important role in early childhood classrooms. Teachers use children's literature to teach early ...literacy concepts including
vocabulary and to help children learn about the world and their identity. Historically, the majority of children's literature has featured White characters and perspectives, excluding many children from seeing themselves and their lives
reflected in books. The aim of this study was to explore how an assessment task that asked preservice teachers (PSTs) to select an underrepresented aspect of children's literature, locate books on that topic, and reflect upon their own
reading experiences as a child, could change their attitudes towards future classroom practice. Reflections from 40 PSTs revealed that many PSTs had not previously considered the experiences of children whose lives were not mirrored in
books, the need for authentic texts written by people who identified as members of diverse groups, or the importance of diversity in children's literature. Recommendations for teacher education programs in increasingly multicultural
Australia are discussed. Author abstract, ed
Although previous studies have underlined the importance of social interactions, multicultural education, prediction/imagination, and bilingual/bi-literacy learning, the intersection of all these ...four areas is yet to be explored. This qualitative case study explored how young bilingual readers create meanings and develop literary responses through prediction, imagination, and social interaction while reading multicultural literature. As part of a larger longitudinal study, this study focused on kindergarten-age Korean-English bilingual children at a Korean Language School in a Midwestern city in the United States. The data were collected over five months using audio/video recordings, open-ended interviews, and children's artifacts. The findings suggest that creative participation and social interactions using two languages help young bilingual readers to engage deeply with the reading and encourage multiple perspectives.
The term 'multiculturalism' has been widely quoted to explain and study transnational networks and cultural changes on a global scale. This book focuses on the application of multicultural theories ...and perspectives in the field of literature and particularly in contemporary narratives. Bringing together ten studies which blur the limits of conventional discourse, and employing an interdisciplinary approach to address research problems using methods and insights borrowed from multiple disciplines, it features theoretical and analytical writings on multiculturalism and its traces in literatures that subvert the essentialist binary frameworks of ethnicity, race, nation and identity in a variety of texts. These include Martin Amis's The Pregnant Widow, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Salman Rushdie's Midnights Children and Shame, Hanif Kureishi's Something to Tell You, J. G. Ballard's High-Rise, Lady Annie Brassey's Sunshine and Storm in the East; or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople, and Sir Henry Blount's A Voyage into the Levant. Approaching theoretical issues concerning multiculturalism from multiple perspectives and looking for its traces in different time periods and genres, this book will be of interest for scholars and researchers working in the fields of literature and cultural studies, as well as students studying in the same fields and the general reader.
