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Origin Narratives - The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption (Paperback)
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Origin Narratives - The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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The first of its kind, this volume unpacks the cultural
construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a
sample of recent children's books that address the subject. Of all
European countries, Spain is the nation where immigration and
transnational adoption have increased most steeply from the early
1990s onward. Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About
Immigration and International Adoption sheds light on the way
contemporary Spanish society and its institutions re-define
national identity and the framework of cultural, political and
ethnic values, by looking at how these ideas are being transmitted
to younger generations negotiating a more heterogeneous
environment. This study collates representations of diversity,
migration, and (colonial) otherness in the texts, as well as their
reception by the adult mediators, through reviews, paratexts, and
opinions collected from interviews and participant observation. In
this new work, author Macarena Garcia Gonzalez argues that many of
the texts at the wider societal discourse of multiculturalism,
which have been warped into a pedagogical synthesis, underwrite the
very racism they seek to combat. Comparing transnational adoption
with discourses about immigration works as a new approach to the
question of multiculturalism and makes a valuable contribution to
an array of disciplines.
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