Ethnic Literary Traditions in American Children’s Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Do Dick and Jane Still Live Here? Reading Children’s Literature as Ethnic Literature....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Listening to the Loon: On Finding the Ideas for My Books....Pages 11-15
Survival through Stories: An Introduction to Indian Literatures....Pages 17-28
Oral Narrative and Ojibwa Story Cycles in Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark House and Game of Silence....Pages 29-43
Alive and Well and Reclaiming Their Cultural Voice: Third Generation Native American Children’s Literature....Pages 45-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The Cadence of Language: An Interview with Julius Lester....Pages 65-69
“Way Down in the Jungle Deep, the Lion Stepped on the Monkey’s Feet”: An Introduction to African American Literature....Pages 71-82
Trauma and National Identity in Haitian-American Young Adult Literature....Pages 83-97
For All My Children, or Approaching African American Children’s Picture Books....Pages 99-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
On Finding a Home....Pages 117-121
Foreigners Within: An Introduction to Asian American Literature....Pages 123-134
Acts of “Desicreation”: Urban Space and South Asian American Identity in Tanuja Desai Hidier’s Born Confused....Pages 135-145
Examining History: Representing War in Asian American Autobiographies for Children....Pages 147-162
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Writing on Violence and Healing for Young Audiences: An Interview with Rigoberto Gonzalez....Pages 165-169
Art, Activism and Community: An Introduction to Latina/o Literature....Pages 171-189
Conflicting Inclinations: Luis J. Rodríguez’s Picture Books for Children....Pages 191-204
Reading Trauma and Violence in U.S. Latina/o Children’s Literature....Pages 205-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-256