Italian Children's Literature and National Identity: Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity. Maria Truglio

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-104
Author(s):  
Lindsay Myers
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature

scholarly journals From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children’s Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity by Elizabeth A. Galway

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Jon D. Lee
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
The Many ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

Focusing on children’s literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood provides scholars of folklore, literature and history with a much-needed text that examines the role children’s literature played in forming Canadian national identity. As a whole, the book is well-written and free of academic jargon, and Galway, using 115 primary sources (i.e. 19th and 20th century children’s literature) and at least twice as many secondary sources (largely contemporary academic texts from various disciplines, including history and English), details well the many themes and ideals that permeated children’s literature in this formative era.

scholarly journals Kronika polska Galla Anonima w kontekście kształtowania się polskiej świadomości narodowej

2015 ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Marcin Lisiecki
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Cultural Components

Gallus Anonymus’ gesta principium polonorum in the context of the formation of Polish national consciousnessThis paper is an attempt at a reconstruction of sources of Polish national consciousness, with its political and cultural components. It should be emphasized that cultural determinants are most important for consolidating national identity. In the Polish case, one of the most interesting and also most often reproduced Polish cultural motifs is the legend of Piast and Popiel. For reasons outlined above, this article will attempt to analyze legends of the first ruler in Poland and references to them in the contemporary Polish culture. For clarity of analysis, the essay is divided into two parts. The first is connected with the myth of richness and the fertile, as well as powerful Poland. The significance of this part is for the processes of creating Polish national identity around utopian visions, and also their presence in the literature. Furthermore, this myth is related with belief that the ruler must be just for his people. The second part includes the analysis of the presence of this myth in popular culture, on the example of children’s literature and in the social space.

scholarly journals Representing The National Identity Through Foreignization in The English Translation of Selected Indonesian Children’s Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Almira Ghassani Shabrina Romala
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Traditional Foods ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Exotic Fruits ◽  
Culture And Language

National identity can be reflected by distinctive traditions, culture, and language and is found in literary works. However, the issue is that whether translated literature can maintain the national identity of the original works. Therefore, to answer this problem, this research aims to investigate categories of foreignization in the English translation of selected Indonesian children’s literature. Besides, it further unravels the applied methods in explaining the foreignization found to determine the purpose and whether it can maintain the national identity of the original. This research was conducted through a descriptive qualitative approach. The data were collected through document analysis utilizing content and thematic analysis. The research results illustrate the categories of foreignization identified in the novel, such as terms of address, exotic fruits, traditional foods, fabric and clothes, and Javanese expressions. The applied methods in explaining the foreignization, i.e., footnotes and in-text descriptions, are then studied under the readers’ response approach to determine the appropriateness and success in maintaining the national identity. This study concludes that the foreignization done by the translators to keep the identity in the works aims to introduce and promote local Indonesian culture in how people address others, the richness of local fruits, foods, and clothes. It also presents Javanese expression to specifically expresses specific terms or feeling to the wider audience and readers. Footnotes and in-text descriptions as translator notes add more illustrations of the foreignization for the readers while showing the national identity.

scholarly journals Écriture féminine de jeunesse et postulation de l’émergence d’un pays dans Lettre à Tita 2 : entre anti-modernisme, exaltation passéiste et quête éthique

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Pierre Suzanne Eyenga Onana
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Ecriture Feminine ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The World ◽  
Poor Relation

Children’s literature is sometimes considered to be the poor relation of literary genres throughout the world, as it is often confined to the rank of literature for the very young. Yet, on closer inspection, does this literature not play an important role in establishing national identity? In other words, does it contribute to the spread of tolerance and therefore to living together? Backed by Pierre Barbéris’ sociocriticism and structured in three parts, this contribution first illustrates the motivations behind the characters’ behavioural imposture; then examines the internal components that articulate the novel’s literality. Finally, the analysis shows that Jeanne Abou’ou’s Lettre à Tita 2, beyond the stigmatization of a poorly assumed modernism or the exaltation of traditional values, deeply encapsulates the writer’s desire to postulate an emerging world in which Cameroonians would readily identify themselves.

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