Subjectivity in Asian Children's Literature and Film: Global Theories and Implications

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award

This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of agency and the circumstances that frame an individual’s decisions and capacities to make choices and act upon them. Such issues of selfhood fall under the heading subjectivity. Attenti...