The Hegemony of Western Categorisation and the Underdevelopmentof Children’s Literature in ‘Other’ Worlds

Authors

  • Ming Cherng Duh National Taitung University, Taiwan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1190

Keywords:

global children's literature studies, cultural hegemony, children's literature in Taiwan, western categorisation

Abstract

The extent to which the development of children's literature in other countries may be dependent on Western modes of thought is discussed by exploring the problems relating to academic research in children's literature as faced by graduate students and scholars in Taiwan. The scholarship is argued to be dominated by Western nations, whose cultural products represent hegemony, by applying perspectives and metaphors from the field of sociology of development.

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Author Biography

  • Ming Cherng Duh, National Taitung University, Taiwan
    Ming Cherng Duh is associate professor and director of Graduate Institute of Children’s Literature at National Taitung University, Taiwan. He holds a doctoral degree in sociology of education from University of Southern California. His research interests include sociology as well as history of childhood. He currently chairs a two-year project called ‘Children’s Literature and Process of Civilization’.

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2007-12-01

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“The Hegemony of Western Categorisation and the Underdevelopmentof Children’s Literature in ‘Other’ Worlds” (2007) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 17(2), pp. 7–15. doi:10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1190.

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