Decolonizing Childhood: Coming of Age in Tamora Pierce’s Fantastic Empire

Sahn, Sarah

doi:10.1353/chl.2016.0012

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“…The adult assumes that the child is powerless in order to confirm their own authority (Nodelman, 2008). This motif is also explored by Sarah Sahn (2016), who found that the main character in Tamora Pierce's fantasy novel series Song of the Lioness Quartet (1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988) is confined to the discourse of adulthood and infantilised in order to keep her childlike and subservient. The protagonist is treated as a naive other, which is colonised and silenced by the adults.…”

Section: Dzieciństwo Literatura Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Analysis of the Interwoven Ideologies Embedded in American Picture Books about Taiwanese Children

Chen

Son

2022

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As children’s worldview is shaped through books, the ideologies embedded in readings influence young readers’ values and beliefs. There are very limited representations of Taiwanese protagonists and their culture in the mainstream book market of the United States. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to examine the portrayal of Taiwanese children and culture in five picture books published in the US: Livia Blackburne’s I Dream of Popo (2021), Alan Woo’s Maggie’s Chopsticks (2015), Belle Yang’s Hannah is My Name (2008), Grace Lin’s The Ugly Vegetables (1999), and Yi Ling Hsu’s Typhoon Holidays (2015). To deeply analyse the textual and non-textual content of these picture books, the paper employs the theoretical framework of ideology and Orientalism, which is detailed in such patterns as characters, relationships, interactions, conflicts, and problem solutions in the stories. The authors of the study argue that the interwoven ideologies of gender roles, capitalism, and patriarchy implicitly exercise power over the young protagonists of the works examined. Moreover, the child characters are treated as ‘obedient others’ by the adults and dominant Western culture.

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Section: Dzieciństwo Literatura Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Analysis of the Interwoven Ideologies Embedded in American Picture Books about Taiwanese Children

Chen

Son

2022

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“…Thomas (2016) asserted that "if today's children grow up with literature that is multicultural, diverse, and decolonized, we can begin the work of healing our nation and world through humanizing stories" (p. 119). We provide this analysis to join the voices and work taking up decolonial and postcolonial approaches in children's literature (Sahn, 2016). In our analysis, we are able to forefront the ways children's literature from the island teaches children about facing adversity as a community, as a people, and in relation to place, history, and nature.…”

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“…Decolonial and postcolonial approaches have also been explored in the field of children’s literature (Hartley, 2010; McGillis, 1999; Raina, 2009; Sahn, 2016; Xie, 1999). These works provide an understanding of how children’s literature can both reflect colonial ideologies and provide spaces for decolonial ruptures that disrupt normative Western ways of knowing.…”

Section: Theoretical Framementioning

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Cuentos Combativos: Decolonialities in Puerto Rican Books About María

Torres

Medina

2021

Journal of Literacy Research

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Guided by theories of racialization and through a decolonial analysis, we share findings on the examination of four children’s books written in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane María. In engaging with these books, we situate our work in communal and research activist practices that foreground Puerto Ricans’ hidden stories and knowledges. Our initial analysis focuses on mapping the complex and contradictory constructions of diverse sociopolitical perspectives within a Puerto Rican imaginary around Hurricane María, communal and historical agency, and emerging resistance as decolonial literary acts. We then provide a more in-depth analysis of two texts, exploring the themes of estamos bien, delinking, one story/one people, and acción social. Findings highlight the need to engage with ruptures created by texts within decolonial imaginative spaces to improve literacy instruction.

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Drawing Out the Resistance Narrative via Mapping in The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

Hameed

2016

Child Lit Educ

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Decolonizing Childhood: Coming of Age in Tamora Pierce’s Fantastic Empire

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Critical Analysis of the Interwoven Ideologies Embedded in American Picture Books about Taiwanese Children

Critical Analysis of the Interwoven Ideologies Embedded in American Picture Books about Taiwanese Children

Cuentos Combativos: Decolonialities in Puerto Rican Books About María

Drawing Out the Resistance Narrative via Mapping in The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

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