Cross-Generational Negotiations: Asian Australian Picture Books

Authors

  • Clare Bradford Deakin University, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1193

Keywords:

cultural diversity, Asian-Australian picture books, Old Magic, Grandpa and Ah Gong, Grandpa's Mask, What a Mess, Fang Fang, Xingyi Mo, Morag Loh, Di Wu, Jing Jing Guo, Sally Rippon, Allan Baillie

Abstract

The picture books which focus on the everyday experiences of children growing up in a multicultural society, where cultural diversity is very often symbolised by objects or artifacts whose production and meanings involve cross-cultural negotiations are discussed. The books discussed are Old Magic, Grandpa and Ah Gong, Grandpa's Mask, What a Mess, and Fang Fang.

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Author Biography

  • Clare Bradford, Deakin University, Australia

    Clare Bradford is Professor of Literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches literary studies and children’s literature and supervises students undertaking MA and PhD programmes. She has published widely on children’s literature, with an emphasis on postcolonial literary theory and its implications for reading colonial and postcolonial texts. Her book Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children’s Literature (2001), won both the Children’s Literature Association Book Award and the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Award. Her most recent books are Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature (2007), and New World Orders: Utopianism and Contemporary Children’s Texts (with Mallan, Stephens and McCallum) (2008). She is the President of the international research society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL).

References

Baillie, A. and D. Wu (1996) Old Magic. Milsons Point. Random House.

Bradford, C. (2006) ‘Multiculturalism and Children’s Books’, in J. Zipes (ed) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, Vol. 3. New York, Oxford University Press, pp. 113-118.

Crossley, N. (2001) ‘Citizenship, Intersubjectivity and the Lifeworld’, in N. Stevenson (ed) Culture & Citizenship. London, Sage, pp. 33-46.

Guo, J. J. and D. Wu (2001) Grandpa’s Mask. Melbourne, Benchmark.

Loh, M. and X. Mo (1995) Grandpa and Ah Gong. South Melbourne, Hyland House.

Pakulski, J. (1997) ‘Cultural Citizenship’, Citizenship Studies 1.1, 73-86.

Rippin, S. (1998) What a Mess, Fang Fang! London, Southwood.

Stevenson, N. (2003) ‘Cultural Citizenship in the “Cultural” Society: A Cosmopolitan Approach’, Citizenship Studies 7.3, 331-348.

(2001) ‘Culture and Citizenship: An Introduction’, in N. Stevenson (ed) Culture and Citizenship, London, Sage, pp. 1-10.

Turner, B. (2008, forthcoming) ‘Rights, Recognition and Relativism’, in W. Ommundsen, M. Leach and A. Vandenberg (eds), Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalisation.

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Published

2007-12-01

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2007)

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How to Cite

“Cross-Generational Negotiations: Asian Australian Picture Books” (2007) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 17(2), pp. 36–42. doi:10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1193.

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