TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial: "Sites of Possibility"
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ASIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, FILM, AND ANIMATION
GUEST EDITOR: BERNARD WILSON
Introduction: The Particular and the Universal
Bernard Wilson
University of the Sacred Heart, Japan
Articles
Agency, Adaptation, and Audience: Re-visioning the Legend of Mahsuri in Selected Contemporary Malaysian Young Adult Fiction
Sharifah Aishah Osman
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Representing Gender in Chinese Children’s Literature (1920-2010)
Lijun Bi
Monash University, Australia
Xiangshu Fang
Deakin University, Australia
"Let them see your face, my child, and thus know the meaning of all things": Unity, the Child, and the Natural World in Rabindranath Tagore’s The Crescent Moon
Alicia Alves
Queen's University, Canada
Teen Victimisation, Survival, and the Formation of Identity in Paro Anand’s The Other: Stories of Difference
Venkatesh Puttaiah
University of Mysore, India
Mapping Contemporary South Asian Children’s Fiction: Contentions and Contestations in Mitali Perkins’ You Bring the Distant Near and Sowmya Rajendran’s The Lesson
Abishek Ghosal
University of Burdwan, India
"Herstory" in Twenty-First Century Indian English Children’s Literature: Subverting Gender Binaries in Mayil Will Not Be Quiet! and Queen of Ice
Anurima Chanda
Ashoka University, India
"Casualties of War": The Japanese Occupation of Korea and Its Impact on Mothers and Daughters in Yoko Kawashima Watkins’ So Far from the Bamboo Grove and Sook Nyul Choi’s Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Gabrielle Atwood Halko
West Chester University, USA
The Highlighted Life: The Humanistic Orientation of War Narration in Chinese Children’s Films of the New Period
Fengxia Tan
Nanjing Normal University, China
Lu Li
Foshan University, China
The Case of "Missing Parent(s)": Children’s Literature in Indian Writing in English
Raj Gaurav Verma
University of Lucknow, India
"A Girl Worth Fighting For" : Transculturation, Remediation, and Cultural Authenticity in Adaptations of the "Ballad of Mulan"
Joseph V. Giunta
Independent Scholar, USA
"Rude Tribes and Wild Frontiers": Treatment of Ethnicity in Chinese Children’s Literature
Xiangshu Fang
Deakin University, Australia
Lijun Bi
Monash University, Australia
A Theoretical Conception of the Value System of Criticism in Chinese Children’s Literature
Lifang Li
Lanzhou University, China
Exploring the Trajectories of Myth, Truth, and Childhood in Mahasweta Devi’s The Armenian Champa Tree
Jabeen Fatima
Independent Scholar, India
Interviews
An Interview with Emila Yusof
Su Mei Kok
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Book Reviews
Hans Volker Wolf, Looi Wan Ling, Stefanie Pillai, and Adriana Phillip, The Mousedeer and the Crocodiles
Amin Amirdabbaghian and Hans V. Wolf
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
GENERAL SECTION
Articles
Decolonizing the Malaysian Mind: Celebrating the Pioneering Achievement of Lloyd Fernando's Cultural Politics
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
University of California-Santa Barbara, USA
Travel, Coal, and Empire: Delineations of Formosa in Nineteenth-Century English Travelers' Coal Texts
Li-Ru Lu
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Obituary
Alas, Sir Vidia: V.S. Naipaul, 1932-2018
John Thieme
University of East Anglia, UK
Poetry & Fiction
At Chairil's Grave
Leonard Jeyam
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
The Leg
Anthony Cummins
Perdana University-Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Malaysia
Medusa Love
Saba Mahmood Bashir
Jamia Millia Islamia University, India
Leave of the Mind
Two Heartbeats Away
K.S. Maniam
Book Reviews
M. Shanmughalingam, Marriage and Mutton Curry
Susan Philip
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Elizabeth Jackson, Muslim Indian Women Writing in English: Class Privilege, Gender Disadvantage, Minority Status
Indrani Karmakar
University of York, UK
Notes on Contributors
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