"Children s literature is a contested terrain, as is
multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable
challenge to both classroom teachers and academics . Rather than
deny the inherent conflicts and tensions in the field, in Critical
Multicultural Analysis of Children s Literature: Mirrors, Windows,
and Doors, Maria Jose Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman confront,
deconstruct, and reconstruct these terrains by proposing a
reframing of the field . Surely all of us children, teachers, and
academics can benefit from this more expansive understanding of
what it means to read books." Sonia Nieto, From the Foreword
Critical multicultural analysis provides a philosophical shift
for teaching literature, constructing curriculum, and taking up
issues of diversity and social justice. It problematizes children s
literature, offers a way of reading power, explores the complex web
of sociopolitical relations, and deconstructs taken-for-granted
assumptions about language, meaning, reading, and literature: it is
literary study as sociopolitical change.
Bringing a critical lens to the study of multiculturalism in
children s literature, this book prepares teachers, teacher
educators, and researchers of children s literature to analyze the
ideological dimensions of reading and studying literature. Each
chapter includes recommendations for classroom application,
classroom research, and further reading. Helpful end-of-book
appendixes include a list of children s book awards, lists of
publishers, diagrams of the power continuum and the theoretical
framework of critical multicultural analysis, and lists of selected
children s literature journals and online resources.
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