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Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales | Revista de estudos pós-coloniais

Representing Refugees in Children’s Transethnic Literature: Two Multilingual and Intermedial Narratives as a Case Study

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Abstract

This contribution aims to explore two picture books of transethnic literature that open up intermedial narrative paths by supporting each of the proposed books with a free accessible illustrated audio book. Accordingly, it examines the extent to which implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lessons with such multimodal stories about migration can engage students in deconstructing such tropes as the idea of a national literature, a mother tongue language, a stable community of belonging and a hostile country of arrival that typically characterise mainstream migration narratives and paradigms.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: June 28, 2024 | Accepted: Oct. 21, 2024 | Published Dec. 9, 2024 | Language: en

Keywords Migration • Decoloniality • Narratives • Intermediality • Language

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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/006