Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories (Paperback, 2020)

Introduction.- Convergences, Crossings, Contestations: Children’s Literature and Film in Asia.- Part I: East.- Children’s Literature and Childhood Imagination in 1960s Taiwan: Jen-Mu Pan and the Discourse of “Child Heart”.- Parents and Parent-Child Relationships in Contemporary Chinese Children’s Literature (1978-2014).- SOCIETY IS A FAMILY: Social Exclusion and Social Dystopia in South Korean Films.- Family Diversity in Recent Japanese Children’s Literature.- Mutilation, Metamorphosis, Transition, Transcendence: Revisiting Genderism and Transgenderism in The Little Mermaid through Gake no Ue no Ponyo.- Part II: South and West.- In the Shadows: Tracing Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema.- Engendering Identities: Gay and Lesbian Characters in Contemporary Indian English Young Adult Fiction.- The Demon as “Other” in Sri Lankan Children’s Literature: Rambukwella’s Mythil’s Secret and Asiri’s Quest.- Towards a Poetics of Childhood Ethics in Abbas Kiarostami’s Children’s and Young Adult Films.- Part III: Southeast.- Folktale Adaptation and Female Agency: Reconfigurations of the Mahsuri Legend in Selected Contemporary Malaysian Young Adult Fiction.- Seeking “Unity in Diversity”: Contemporary Children’s Books in Indonesia.- The Paradox of the Filipino Child: Realist Philippine Children’s Stories (1990-2018).- Through Screens and Streams: Digital Liminality and Identities in Philippine Young Adult Speculative Fiction.- Part IV: Diaspora.- Symbiotic Cultural Landscapes: Retelling Chinese Folktales in Ed Young’s Picture Books.- Hyphens, Hybrids and Bridges: Negotiating Third spaces in Asian-American Children’s Literature.