Embracing one's difference through selected Native CanLit for Children - Softcover

Amante, Fátima SUSANA

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659880930 ISBN 13: 9783659880933

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Native Canadian fiction for children and young adults can be viewed as an important means of cultural transmission and socialisation that contributes, to a great extent, to a community's collective identity. Here begins the first problem posed to us: trying to define the concept of culture and to examine in what way(s) oral heritage forms a part of it. Then, some other questions arise because in Canada debates about national identity re-surface repeatedly and continue to haunt the collective imagiNation of the country.New voices are currently being authorised as Canadian, and difference has now turned into the distinctive feature of the national lit. Jeannette Armstrong, an Okanagan writer, artist and educator, is well aware of the strength that stems from this variety of cultures and she advocates for a plurality of voices within and outside of her community. Using Armstrong's fiction for children and young adults, and looking briefly at some works by other writers, this book examines how lit. can be read as a site of resistance and/or of cross-cultural exchange connecting diverse people of different nationalities, generations, languages, religions, genders & social condition.

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About the Author

Susana completed her PhD in the field of Children’s Lit.(English Philology) in 2011 and she is currently working as an Invited Adjunct-Professor in the Language Sciences Department at the School of Education,Polytechnic of Viseu. She is a member of the CI&DETS and her areas of interest include CanLit,(Portuguese) Children’s Lit. & Creative Writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659880930
• ISBN 13: 9783659880933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380