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Telling Different Tales: Possible Childhoods in Children's Literature
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Sreenivas, Deepa – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
This article draws on the insights/questions that emerged while putting together a set of stories for children published in a series named "Different Tales." These stories, set in Dalit and other minority communities, problematize the normative grids through which we view "childhood" as they depict the complex ways in which…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Tales, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries
MAHFIL: A Quarterly of South Asian Literature, Spring-Summer 1971.
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Coppola, Carlo, Ed. – 1971
This volume contains both literature from South Asia and articles about South Asian literature. The first article consists of an interview with a leading Pakistani poet, N.M. Rashed, who discusses modern Urdu literature. Other articles are: "Five 'Dangerous' Books"--on censorship in East Pakistan--by P. Sarkar; "Baluchi Language and…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Literary Criticism, Literature, Literature Reviews
Hindi Stories: A Dual Language Reader for Area and Advanced Language Students.
1975
The translator selected six short stories by modern Indian writers and compiled them as a reader for advanced students of Hindi and Area Studies. The Hindi text on the right-hand page is translated into English on the left. The stories were selected to include vignettes of urban and rural life and characters from both middle and lower class…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Hindi, Indians, Instructional Materials
Using Folk Tales and Indigenous Materials in Curriculum Planning for Rural Women in India.
Dhawan, Gita – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1987
Folk tales and indigenous material can be used as a resource when developing teaching technology for poor women in India. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Females
Edited Responses to the Danish Narrative "Per Smed's Whip" from Readers in Denmark, Great Britain, India, and Nigeria in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 8.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper, number eight in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 129 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Edited Reader Responses to the Greenlandic Narrative "The Barking Ones" from Readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and Nigeria in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 9.
Bennett, Helen; And Others – 1988
This paper, number nine in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 137 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Edited Reader Responses to the Turkish Narrative "The Golden Apple" from Readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and Nigeria in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 10.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper, number 10 in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 140 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education