The Playful Antiquarian

The Lion and the Unicorn 30.2 (Apr. 2006)

May 15th, 2006

The April 2006 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn is a special issue on Asian American Children’s Literature edited by Dolores de Manuel and Rocío G. Davis. This issue features the following articles:

• Paying with Shadows / Laurence Yep
• The Cultural Production of Asian American Young Adults in the Novels of Marie G. Lee, An Na, and Doris Jones Yang / Monica Chiu
• Asian American Autobiography for Children: Critical Paradigms and Creative Practice / Rocío G. Davis
• “The sound of bamboo planted deep inside them:” Reclaiming Filipino American History and Identity in Lakas and the Manilatown Fish / Melinda L. De Jesus
• Writing Chinese America into Words and Images: Storytelling and Retelling of The Song of Mu Lan / Lan Dong
• Negotiated Identities and Female Personal Space in Thai American Adolescent Literature / Rahpee Thongthiraj
• Toward a Poetics of Asian American Fantasy: Laurence Yep’s Construction of a Bicultural Mythology / Celestine Woo

This issue also includes book reviews for the following books:

• Archetypes and motifs in folklore and literature: a handbook
• Dime novel in children’s literature
• Clever maids: the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales
• Brown gold: milestones of African American children’s picture books, 1845-2002
• Important books: children’s picture books as art and literature
• Elusive childhood: impossible representations in modern fiction

These articles are available online to Project Muse subscribers only. Check your local library for access to print or electronic copies.

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