Reading practices, postcolonial literature, and cultural mediation in the classroom /

In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultural mediation for readers from various backgrounds. The studies described in the five chapters of the book explore the spaces of convergence of identi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnston, Ingrid, 1946-
Other Authors: Mangat, Jyoti
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, ©2012.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=478120
Table of Contents:
  • Spaces of Impact
  • Adolescents Interrogating a Story of the Air India Bombing
  • Truth or Lie
  • Students Reading the Indeterminacies of an Aboriginal Auto/Biographical Text
  • Telling Too Much
  • Cultural Translation in African Novels for Adolescent Readers
  • Outside the Comfort Zone
  • Re-Locating Ourselves in a Postcolonial Literary Pedagogy
  • National Identity and the Ideology of Canadian Multicultural Picture Books
  • Pre-Service Teachers Encountering Representations of Difference.