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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Main Author: Taronna, Annarita
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Language:English
Published: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari 2024-12-01
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Online Access:http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/006
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description 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
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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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