In her analysis of some of the most interesting and important children s literature from Central America and the Caribbean, Ann Gonzalez uses postcolonial narrative theory to expose and decode what marginalized peoples say when they tell stories to their children and how the interpretations children give these stories today differ from the ways they have read them in the past. Gonzalez reads against the grain, deconstructing and critiquing dominant discourses to reveal consistent narrative patterns throughout the region that have helped children maneuver in a world dominated by powerful...
In her analysis of some of the most interesting and important children s literature from Central America and the Caribbean, Ann Gonzalez uses postcolo...
This volume is the first book-length study in English to explore how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. By analyzing a variety of texts written, adapted, or marketed expressly for Spanish-speaking children, Gonzalez examines how children's literature approaches, intentionally or unintentionally, the Spanish American colonial and postcolonial experience and communicates national and hemispheric perceptions of reality, identity, and values to the next generation....
This volume is the first book-length study in English to explore how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin Amer...
