What’s in a Name? Assimilation Ideology in Picturebooks

This paper examines the implementation of assimilation ideology in picturebooks. Texts such as My Name is Yoon (Recorvits & Swiatkowska, 2003) and The Name Jar (Choi, 2001) present two Korean girls’ arrival in a new school environment that has difficulty pronouncing their names. Consequently, th...

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Main Author: Grit Alter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CLELEjournal 2016-05-01
Series:CLELEjournal
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Online Access:http://clelejournal.org/assimilation-ideology-in-picturebooks/