Re-landscaping the Hero's Journey: The Connection Between Fantasy Stories and Multicultural Literature
What does fantasy have in common with multicultural children's literature? During Week 2 of our Crossing Cultural Borders series, we'll explore the connections.
Topics we will cover include:
1) The Hero's Journey
2) How Harry Potter Is a Multicultural Character
3) How Contemporary & Classic Fantasy Kid's Lit Have Evolved Towards being Multicultural
4) How the Different Sub-Genres of Fantasy Deal with Multicultural Issues
5) Fantasies featuring ethnic/multicultural characters.
I'm curious to know if you are a fan of multicultural literature but not fantasy and/or vice versa, why do you like reading one but not the other? Because I really believe there are so many similarities!
Our Related Postings:
Topics we will cover include:
1) The Hero's Journey
2) How Harry Potter Is a Multicultural Character
3) How Contemporary & Classic Fantasy Kid's Lit Have Evolved Towards being Multicultural
4) How the Different Sub-Genres of Fantasy Deal with Multicultural Issues
5) Fantasies featuring ethnic/multicultural characters.
I'm curious to know if you are a fan of multicultural literature but not fantasy and/or vice versa, why do you like reading one but not the other? Because I really believe there are so many similarities!
Our Related Postings:
- The Hero's Journey
- Harry Potter as a Multicultural Character
- Stranger in the Strangest Lands - Classic Portal Fantasies
- Fantasy Picture Books - Where Are the Wild Things?
- Finding the Fantastic Subculture within the Familiar World
- Time as Another Cultural Border
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posted by Emily Jiang at 1:56 PM
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2 Comments:
This is a fascinating topic, and I am going to try hard to find the time to write more on my blog...
Ursula Le Guin immediatly sprang to mind -- the anthropology of other worlds.
Thanks, Charlotte! I would love to read more on your blog, too. And I love Ursula Le Guin!
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