Wilson, Bernard, and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, editors. Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National and Transnational Trajectories. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 434 pages. Print ISBN 9789811526329
Year: 2025
Type: book-review
Abstract: Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National and Transnational Trajectories 2020, is a generative survey to grapple with the many uses and ways of engaging with children's literature and film situated in Asian contexts.Written primarily for an Asian Studies audience, the book's 16 chapters authored by mostly Asian scholars, are divided geographically into four sections-East, South and West, Southeast, and Diaspora-and contribute to scholarship about Asian children's literature and film.Each chapter in Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age addresses white, Eurocentric, Anglophone norms in children's literature.Across this edited volume, Wilson and
Authors: Kyle Chong, Emma X. Paulson
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410121661