Open AccessThe Hegemony of Western Categorisation and the Underdevelopmentof Children’s Literature in ‘Other’ Worlds
Author(s) -
Ming Cherng Duh
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1190
Subject(s) - hegemony , scholarship , field (mathematics) , sociology , cultural hegemony , social science , gender studies , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , mathematics , politics , pure mathematics
The extent to which the development of children's literature in other countries may be dependent on Western modes of thought is discussed by exploring the problems relating to academic research in children's literature as faced by graduate students and scholars in Taiwan. The scholarship is argued to be dominated by Western nations, whose cultural products represent hegemony, by applying perspectives and metaphors from the field of sociology of development.