Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study
This contribution aims to explore two picture books of transethnic literature that open up intermedial narrative paths by supporting each of the proposed books with a free accessible illustrated audio book. Accordingly, it examines the extent to which implementing English as a Foreign Language (E...
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This contribution aims to explore two picture books of transethnic literature that open up intermedial narrative paths by supporting each of the proposed books with a free accessible illustrated audio book. Accordingly, it examines the extent to which implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lessons with such multimodal stories about migration can engage students in deconstructing such tropes as the idea of a national literature, a mother tongue language, a stable community of belonging and a hostile country of arrival that typically characterise mainstream migration narratives and paradigms.
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| spelling | doaj-art-41588f82d21a44dc9efa6cfc1609b5842024-12-09T09:31:51ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariIl Tolomeo2499-59752024-12-0126110.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/006journal_article_19563Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case StudyTaronna, Annarita0Università degli Studi di Bari «Aldo Moro», Italia This contribution aims to explore two picture books of transethnic literature that open up intermedial narrative paths by supporting each of the proposed books with a free accessible illustrated audio book. Accordingly, it examines the extent to which implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lessons with such multimodal stories about migration can engage students in deconstructing such tropes as the idea of a national literature, a mother tongue language, a stable community of belonging and a hostile country of arrival that typically characterise mainstream migration narratives and paradigms. http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/006Decoloniality. Intermediality. Language. Migration. Narratives |
| spellingShingle | Taronna, Annarita Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study Il Tolomeo Decoloniality. Intermediality. Language. Migration. Narratives |
| title | Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study |
| title_full | Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study |
| title_fullStr | Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study |
| title_short | Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study |
| title_sort | representing refugees in children s transethnic literature two multilingual and intermedial narratives as a case study |
| topic | Decoloniality. Intermediality. Language. Migration. Narratives |
| url | http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/006 |
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